[zeveb]

> I'm actually OK with the possibility of getting away from "everything is a file".

I actually much prefer going all the way with everything-is-a-file; when Poettering tried to claim that his printer is not a file, I really wonder if a) he's even heard of Plan 9 b) he knows about PostScript.

Where I'm not a fan of systemd is that it's all written in C, instead of a higher-level, safer language, and that we're getting to a point where systemd-terminal, systemd-browser and systemd-nano aren't a joke but mandatory.

[digi_owl]

That seems to be an ongoing flaw of his, and others around him. No real interest in the history of UNIX. Where it came from and why it is the way it is.

All he sees is a nice pile of drivers to bootstrap whatever computing project he wants to get done, and thats it.

[JdeBP]

I am unaware that systemd-terminal ever was a joke. It was there for a time, called systemd-consoled, and then quietly pulled in July 2015. Lennart Poettering failed to respond when asked about it.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722163

* https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595907

[digi_owl]

I think i spotted it quipped in various places around the time of a certain gif being released, but quieted down once people heard about consoled...