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by mackal 1092 days ago
I think it all comes back to people being upset about the Ubuntu PulseAudio switch. Ubuntu did a bad job when they switched to PulseAudio and caused lots of issues. Lennart Poettering was lead dev for both projects and it's weird how much the anti-systemd crowd get their panties in a bunch over him and also PA.
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ilyt 1092 days ago
He fucked uo a lot in PA

He also fucked up some in systemd, journalctl being biggest example.

He also fucked up some in kernel, to the point Linus yelled at him

The critique is entirely deserved

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throw0101a 1092 days ago
> He also fucked up some in systemd, journalctl being biggest example.

"Let's just invent our own non-ACID file format instead using what's already available." (Like perhaps SQLite.) Howard Chu of OpenLDAP had a rant on this:

* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924071300-170035-why-you...

Does journald support off-host log shipping yet? Because for all its supposed replacing of syslog, as a sysadmin I still have to run (r)syslogd to send things to a central log host via RFC 3164/5424 anyway.

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ilyt 1092 days ago
I'm pretty sure it's just him wanting to toy with databases and picking systemd to be his victim.

I'd expect when he finds new toy to keep himself busy someone else will fix it to actually work properly for the most time like it happened with PulseAudio

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