Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 7, 2019 6:54 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Debian votes on init systems by mgb
Parent article: Debian votes on init systems

Plenty of code uses glibc functionality that isn't present in other C libraries. It's clear that many people writing applications for Linux don't care about non-Linux operating systems, which (by your metric) means they're throwing away 98%+ of their potential user base.

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 7, 2019 7:25 UTC (Sat) by mgb (guest, #3226) [Link] (4 responses)

What is this Linux-only non-portable non-system-software APPLICATION that your Mom, Brother, or Cat would hate to do without?

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 7, 2019 7:41 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Amazon? Google? Facebook?

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 7, 2019 7:45 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

All serious application authors are writing multi-platform applications that your Mom, Brother or Cat would hate to do without?

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 9, 2019 19:49 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (1 responses)

Nice shift of goalposts there!

In any case, there's loads of very specific software that's critical. For any (most?) big companies (especially the ones that have been around for a while) it's often the same: Loads of systems, loads of interdependencies, etc. Enough stuff that is entirely Windows specific, plus various Linux specific, plus various systemd-specific, etc. You could go on forever basically. It's messy, everyone knows it should be better, but hey, big company..

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 9, 2019 19:53 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

In all the time I've been aware of their comments on the subject, mgb has never displayed the slightest interest in a fair and reasonable conversation about systemd.