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...don't wish to join you on that. Authoritarianism, in all its forms, is dangerous and, in my view, a form of vandalism. Also one might ask: What centre? This is the world of Linux. Many people don't recognise any centre, and quite sensibly so. Indeed, they use Linux explicitly to avoid the centrism of the likes of Linux or Apple. As I observed above, this authoritarian centrism in in part why systemd is so despised. It was effectively forced on a great many users in in a centrist, choice-limiting manner. A great many people regard this as a bug, not a feature. I think they might be right. &...

...counts, and to pull them all together into a single interface. The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds everywhere. Sup is made possible thanks to Dave Balmain''s ferret and Matt Armstrong''s rmail. Changes: == 0.0.1 / 2006-11-28 * Initial release. Unix-centrism, support for mbox only, no i18n. Untested on anything other than 1.8.5. Other than that, works great! http://sup.rubyforge.org -- William <wmorgan-ferret at masanjin.net>

On Oct 17, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Mark Rousell <mark.rousell at signal100.com> wrote: > > launchd is not being forced on them as systemd is in practice Try doing without launchd on macOS. If you think that?s irrelevant, count the number of MacBooks at the next FreeBSD conference you attend. For an init system to gain sufficient momentum, it must be the default, with no easy way to

...on Unix vendors much good. A better thing came along and wiped them out. The thing is, a whole lot of programmers went to a whole lot of effort to make that happen. Are you going to do more than post to mailing lists in an effort to wipe out systemd? > As I observed above, this authoritarian centrism in in part why systemd > is so despised. It was effectively forced on a great many users in in a > centrist, choice-limiting manner. You also didn?t get a choice over SysVInit vs BSD style init, short of switching from Red Hat to Slackware. So what? Someone has to make a decision. We call...

...endors much good. A better thing came along and wiped them out. The thing is, a whole lot of programmers went to a whole lot of effort to make that happen. Are you going to do more than post to mailing lists in an effort to wipe out systemd? > >> As I observed above, this authoritarian centrism in in part why systemd >> is so despised. It was effectively forced on a great many users in in a >> centrist, choice-limiting manner. > > You also didn?t get a choice over SysVInit vs BSD style init, short of switching from Red Hat to Slackware. So what? > > Someone has...