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The real motivation behind systemd (2018)


Published on 2018-05-01. Modified on 2023-10-28.

The latest invention by Lennart Poettering called systemd-homed is presented as a new way to handle home directories, whereas it really just is a way to get one step closer to eliminating/etc, which is something Red Hat has dreamed about for a long time. Lennart Poettering explained that the hard coded values should be there in case of catastrophic failure of configuration files, and a lack of DHCP on the network (the DNS fallback is changeable but requires a recompile). The way these issues are dealt with generally, and the extremely arrogant attitude of Lennart Poettering shows a complete disregard for user privacy and for the interests of the open source Linux community.

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