Once you go mini...

[Nigel Kersten]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:34 AM, ibi sum <ibisum at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > On Feb 25, 2015, at 19:17, Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net>
> wrote:
> > As someone who was a Debian fanboy for a very long time, I actually
> think Red Hat are the ones who are advancing the state of Linux in the most
> meaningful way right now.
>
> I think the Linux Mint folks are doing a better job, but honestly I
> haven’t paid enough attention to what RH are doing.  What are RH doing?
>

systemd to start with :)

Here's a good overview of the kind of stuff I'm talking about:

http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html

What do you think Mint is doing a better job at? It's basically a different
release process of Debian/Ubuntu, with different opinions around including
proprietary software.

They do work in userland, but other than Cinnamon, I don't see anything
they've done that substantially pushes Linux forward.


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> > This might be because I'm strongly on the systemd side of the Great Init
> Wars of 2014/2015…
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>
> Obvious troll is obvious!
>

I'm genuinely not trolling, although I realize it looks just like I am :) I
think systemd is exactly the right kind of disruptive change that needs to
happen to Linux, particularly in the world of



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> >
> > Yep, and they do this far better than Ubuntu do with LTS releases.
>
> Not my experience, but then I run my apt-get updates religiously, whereas
> most people do not.
>

As a desktop OS only it's not as bad, but Ubuntu Server LTS has many
issues.


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> > You should Puppetize it :)
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> Not gonna do it, but its so *cough* ansible *cough* tempting ..
>
>
For one or two machines, sure, and for orchestration sure. Not for actual
config management :)

(For those who don't know, I work at Puppet Labs :) )
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