Message-ID: <62cdee04@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Lennard Poettering joined Microsoft Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <87k08kpn27.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <20220711193123.6f6195f5@ryz> <62cca998@news.ausics.net> <20220712190410.592bc341@nx-74205> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 13 Jul 2022 07:56:20 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 29 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35038 Aragorn wrote: > On 12.07.2022 at 08:52, Computer Nerd Kev scribbled: >> Marco Moock wrote: >> > Am Montag, 11. Juli 2022, um 15:04:46 Uhr schrieb ?yvind R?tvold: >> > >> >> Last time i tried to use windows it was really really terrible, way >> >> worse than anything systemd did (yes - past tense for me:). >> > >> > systemd is nothing compared to the restrictions MS gives you with >> > Windows. >> > Additionally, nobody is forced to use systemd. There are still >> > distributions that don't come with it, like Devuan and Slackware. >> >> Yep, and now that Poettering is presumably working on Windows [...] > > You do know that Microsoft also has its own GNU/Linux lab, and its own > (Hyper-V-optimized) GNU/Linux distribution, right? Not really, I've been showing very vague interest in anything M$ related for years now. Sounds like the scope is limited to running on their cloud services though, just like Oracle and AWS also have their own distros designed for their cloud services. So nothing all that remarkable about it, and probably little chance of significantly influencing the design of popular general-purpose Linux distros like Red Hat does. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#