[ale] Origins of Linux, do we care?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:16:40AM -0400, leam hall wrote:
> Do we care?
> 
> https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

It's not much of a history if it was written on July 31, 1992.

> systemd bothers me at a visceral level. It really does seem like an MS
> minded beast controlling a Linux shell; a monster from horror films. It
> looks like Linux and we are supposed to just like it? If we like systemd,
> why care about Linux at all? Why not just do Windows and totally succumb?

Are you seriously saying that the epitome of a proprietary, closed, 
vendor-specific system is somehow comparable to a solution that is not 
only (vastly) technically superior, highly customizable, and provided 
under a Free Software license?

...So what exactly are you basing your feelings on here?  Be specific.

 - Solomon 
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