Dear Linux Weenies: Quit "deprecating" standard tools. It's stupid. You're breaking compatibility with LITERALLY EVERY OTHER UNIX ON EARTH and you need to stop.https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/976156288638840832 …
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https://twitter.com/Random832/status/976562443454476288 … "Works fine (if you go figure out what package you need to install, in the middle of a production outage, because the tool you would use on literally any other unix-like system to troubleshoot doesn't exist here)." Guess we have different standards.
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Sorry, my tweet was imprecise. I agree totally that the declarations of "deprecated!" all over the place are harmful to users. But it's only harmful if you're using a distro that buys into that bs.
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Problem is GroupThink is strong in the Linux community. A couple of distros "buy into that bs" then another distro does it because they did it, and pretty soon systemd is everywhere with its pisspoor design attitude and shoddy implementation.
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One word: RedHat.
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Two words: "Still Linux." RedHat has a lower suck quotient, but it's still got every problem born of being part of The Linux Community.
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That was in reference to group think (and systemd). It's origins come from RedHat.
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Ah, yes RedHat is not a Sanity Leader in that regard. (I still don't understand why they jumped on that particular train - I get why you'd want a better init system, but systemd still doesn't seem "better" to me, even with wider adoption and a bunch of fixes since its birth.)
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Because wunderkid Poettering, a RH employee wrote it. I call him Poopering. He has an arrogant attitude even in person, and his code sucks.
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Who’s recompiling these defunct tools to mitigate spectre?
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"Meh. Just rewrite them all in python." - The Linux Community, probably. (Also I'll say that's not necessarily a bad idea: If the issue is "We're replacing them because the code is old and hard to maintain" just re-create the tool in a language you like.)
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You spelled “go” wrong

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Meet my new Linux distribution: Suicide Linux. All core system tools have been reimplemented in Brainfuck and the only shell installed out of the box is csh (not even tcsh - plain nasty old C Shell). "Just kill yourself. No matter how you do it, it's gonna be less painful."
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