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MustrumR n00b
Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 71 Location: Right here
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject: GNOME 3.7 requires systemd |
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/core/3.7/3.7.1/NEWS
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Version 3.7.1
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- Use logind for suspending and rebooting the system
- Require logind for session tracking
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It's systemd-logind by the way. |
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LiamOS n00b
Joined: 06 Jun 2012 Posts: 64 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Can't really say I'm surprised... Just disappointed. I used to like the gnome project. _________________ CFLAGS=" -O999999" |
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MustrumR n00b
Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 71 Location: Right here
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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I use systemd so I don't care. Just wanted to tell you. |
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188562 Apprentice
Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 186
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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So what? Even gnome 3.6.* is not in main tree… only in overlay. and even then not all. |
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khayyam Watchman
Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 6227 Location: Room 101
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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MustrumR ... and this is a fact that has been known since May 2011 ... so you missed the party.
I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft was slighted for its IE intergration, the resulting anti-trust case, and the judgement of "monopolization" (in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act) ... in short, the prevention of others (including Netscape, and Linux) from competing by fixing API's, and abusing its relationships with OEM's, in order to manitain a monopoly. The argument provided by MS was that IE was "inextricably linked" to the OS, and "inovativation" required that integration.
Now we have a DE that depends on a specific init system, and the same rational is used to justify it. Not suprisingly this move comes from Redhat, and not suprisingly the likes of gnome, freedesktop, systemd, etc, all recieve "sponsorship" from RH, and not supprisingly, it all follows some predictable monopolistic logic.
best ... khay |
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steveL Watchman
Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 5153 Location: The Peanut Gallery
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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khayyam wrote: | Not surprisingly, it all follows some predictable monopolistic logic. |
That's the nature of corporations: incumbents will always put up barriers to entry to new players (eg: patents.)
RedHat is not a small company, and it is in their financial interest to make sure as many enterprises as possible think "RedHat" when they think "Linux". What better way, than by having every "innovative" technology come from their programmers, and even better if it doesn't work properly anywhere else: that just shows RedHat must be the best, to the executive mindset (which knows nothing at all about computers, even more so in most technology companies: they're usually there to present the right image to outside investors.)
Corporations will always seek to exploit, be that "consumers" (or "people" as we used to be known), the environment, governments or wars: it's their "fiduciary responsibility to shareholders." (This was the reasoning put forward during recent US healthcare scandals.)
Anyone who thinks differently just gets fired or demoted to a sh1tcan position, or their company goes bankrupt, since the banks (who have always lent money printed out of thin air, thanks to Fractional Reserve banking) won't support them, but will pump money into exploitative businesses, who yield a higher return once they are part of the cartel. And all that requires is sufficient capital, which banks get for free, and lend at interest.
It does not matter what principles the founders start out with: as soon as they have shareholders, the "fiduciary responsibility" trumps all other concerns.
Everything else is just marketing. |
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GFCCAE6xF Apprentice
Joined: 06 Aug 2012 Posts: 295
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Has Ubuntu caved in to systemd yet? I believe they use something else (upstart?), as well as gnome3 as the base for their desktop... Maybe there will be hope for using gnome3 without systemd in the future
Not that I really care what happens to either of them if I'm honest.
~Another systemd user |
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asturm Developer
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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I've heard that Canonical have stopped (or will stop) following latest Gnome development, because of lack of communication, bug fixing and feature breakage. So maybe they will also just stay on 3.6 much longer and backport the hell out of 3.8. |
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khayyam Watchman
Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 6227 Location: Room 101
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:58 am Post subject: |
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steveL wrote: | That's the nature of corporations: incumbents will always put up barriers to entry to new players (eg: patents.) |
steveL ... I mostly agree with your analysis (actually, I'd go further in some regards, particularly on the nature of "interest", and where the sum paid on the principle actually, or magically, comes from ... but that is perhaps for some other time). That given, I still think there is something altogether dishonest about the behavior of many linux users, and advocates, in that they want to call out MS, Nvidia, etc, etc, for their "proprietory" behavior, but when the very same behavoir, ie "vendor lock in", comes packaged in the guise of "inovation" (or what-have-you) they are (mostly) silent. That was really my intention in the above, and in that regard I don't think the blame lies entirely with the likes of Redhat, but the users also.
best ... khay |
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hcaulfield57 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 148
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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This is interesting, but I seriously doubt there are any Gnome 3 users who would prefer not to use systemd. |
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asturm Developer
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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There are some around here who do. |
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hcaulfield57 Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:18 am Post subject: |
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genstorm wrote: | There are some around here who do. |
Well in the future, I suppose I will have to keep from making over-reaching generalizations then! |
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Dominique_71 Veteran
Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 1877 Location: Switzerland (Romandie)
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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I don't care. I never used Gnome more than 5 minutes.
First, I cannot get a decent mouse focus policy with it, something like click to focus without raise, raise/unraise on the window title bar.
Second, I never understood the frenetic efforts that was put into pulseaudio, when we can do the same with ALSA + JACK + the snd_loopback module, that with something than pulseaudio will never archive, or maybe in 10 years, but is a must for any serious audio work: a constant sound latency.
Third, I removed the fully idiotic "take_my_freedom-ware.tm" and "break_my_good_working_system-ware.tm" policykit from my system. This removed the whole of Gnome and pulseaudio. Very
So, I am not surprised by this new idiotic Gnome dependency.
GNU/Linux is outstanding for a server. But on the desktop side, it is a lot of frenetic efforts made to reproduce the paradigm of big $corporations: the never the better. No matter if it add no new functionality but consume system resources instead, the power of the machines will be increased.
For info, the gimp on AROS running in virtualbox on one cpu core, is starting at least 4 times faster, than the gentoo version of gimp running natively in the same 4 cores machine. _________________ "Confirm You are a robot." - the singularity |
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tomk Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 7221 Location: Sat in front of my computer
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Gentoo Chat to Unsupported Software as it's not currently in the Portage tree. _________________ Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip |
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Dominique_71 Veteran
Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 1877 Location: Switzerland (Romandie)
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot: the next Debian release will not use Gnome any more for its default desktop. _________________ "Confirm You are a robot." - the singularity |
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GFCCAE6xF Apprentice
Joined: 06 Aug 2012 Posts: 295
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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genstorm wrote: | I've heard that Canonical have stopped (or will stop) following latest Gnome development, because of lack of communication, bug fixing and feature breakage. So maybe they will also just stay on 3.6 much longer and backport the hell out of 3.8. |
Interesting, I look forward to seeing how that all pans out.
Dominique_71 wrote: | I forgot: the next Debian release will not use Gnome any more for its default desktop. |
Interesting again, it seems this is the source of this information in case anyone else is interested. |
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asturm Developer
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:04 am Post subject: |
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PSYKORGASM wrote: | Dominique_71 wrote: | I forgot: the next Debian release will not use Gnome any more for its default desktop. |
Interesting again, it seems this is the source of this information in case anyone else is interested. |
That's obsolete already - Gnome returned to be the 'default' on disc again. |
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hcaulfield57 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 148
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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genstorm wrote: |
That's obsolete already - Gnome returned to be the 'default' on disc again. |
Well that's a relief, it would be terrible if anyone challenged Gnome, the great desktop that it is. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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hcaulfield57,
If I have to choose between Gnome and systemd and using another desktop, I will drop Gnome.
I dropped Red Hat for Gentoo, I'm not about to let Red Hat swallow me up again.
I'm old enough to remember the demise of the propriatary workstations before IBM put capital letters into PC.
How long will it be before Red Hat go back to interoperability or become extinct.
Are we just seeing the start of a rerun of computer history? _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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ulenrich Veteran
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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@Neddy what about parallel install of systemd ?
(Or do you think there are trojan horses with red hats apearing? I think it is told about systemd as a red herring story. This might be the main cause of the red hats most people believe to have seen.) |
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hcaulfield57 Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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@NeddySeagoon: I just fail to see what the perceived market is for this software that RedHat is recently pushing. As far as I am aware RedHat's target market is enterprise servers and workstations, unless I'm mistaken I think their making a serious mistake. |
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krinn Watchman
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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ulenrich wrote: | @Neddy what about parallel install of systemd ?
(Or do you think there are trojan horses with red hats apearing? I think it is told about systemd as a red herring story. This might be the main cause of the red hats most people believe to have seen.) |
Is that another call for zillions unilateral speaking messages about systemd/udev will rule the world because it's the kick ass thing any linux was waiting ?
Please, i know it's to saved us, because we cannot see the light, but could we die without them in silent ? |
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The Doctor Moderator
Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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ulenrich wrote: | @Neddy what about parallel install of systemd ?
(Or do you think there are trojan horses with red hats apearing? I think it is told about systemd as a red herring story. This might be the main cause of the red hats most people believe to have seen.) |
How about we require that all linux from now on be shipped with the entire KDE bundle as well as openRC? After all, it will give devs more libraries and possibilities. I am sure those who run severs or older computers will not mind the few extra gigs of storage space to make this happen. After all, we need a nice stable system to develop on. And really, what setup can do without Nepomuk? We should require it to be active at all times! it only takes a little bite of ram. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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ulenrich,
Why?
Vertical integration is a poor system design concept, so I don't want it at all.
As I've said, internally, in systmd, everything may be nicely compartmentalsed, so its robust east to maintain and test. If that were true, building just parts of it, e.g. just udev, would be easy to support.
The design goes against KISS and teh *NIX idea of one program does one thing and does it well.
hcaulfield57,
I'm with you there. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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steveL Watchman
Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 5153 Location: The Peanut Gallery
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 7:48 am Post subject: |
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ulenrich wrote: | Or do you think there are trojan horses with red hats apearing? I think it is told about systemd as a red herring story. This might be the main cause of the red hats most people believe to have seen. |
You really are extraordinary: you think people don't like systemd or Poettering's other work for some weird conspiracy "red-herring" reason, rather than the reasons several of us have spelt out to you in simple language, over a period of months.
Slavish fanboi-ism is far more foolish than any intuitive, or evidence-based, dislike other people might have of the software "solutions" you espouse. |
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