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Good interview. The developer seems like a nice guy. The problem with GTK 3 is that eventually it may result in MATE = Gnome 3 with MATE panel, XFCE = Gnome 3 with XFCE panel etc. We have seen how Gnome/Red Hat has "unified" the desktop space: Pulseaudio, Plymouth, PolicyKit, GTK 3, DBus, Systemd, libinput, Wayland etc. It becomes harder and harder to maintain an independent Linux DE.

I see GTK 3 as a great danger. The XFCE taskmanager (GTK 3) seems dumbed down. It's not easy to see total RAM usage in MBs. Also GTK 2 desktops have good incremental support for HiDPI for all toolkits (GTK 2/3, QT 4/5). GTK 3 desktops only support 2x scaling and don't support scaling of GTK 2 apps.

polaca57 wrote:Ever wonder why Linux distros are adopting systemd?
Answer: money
Motive: control and monopoly, hint: red-hat = next red-mond

Redhat

Revenue US$2.4 billion (2016)[3]
Operating income US$288.05 million (2016)[3]
Net income US$199.37 million (2016)[3]
Total assets US$4.155 billion (2016)[3]
Total equity US$1.334 billion (2016)[3]

As long as there's the GPL, the Linux Foundation (the keepers of the kernel), and the purists at Debian, I'm not concerned. In fact, Red Hat's commercial success should be celebrated as far as I'm concerned.

uncle mark wrote:

polaca57 wrote:Ever wonder why Linux distros are adopting systemd?
Answer: money
Motive: control and monopoly, hint: red-hat = next red-mond

Redhat

Revenue US$2.4 billion (2016)[3]
Operating income US$288.05 million (2016)[3]
Net income US$199.37 million (2016)[3]
Total assets US$4.155 billion (2016)[3]
Total equity US$1.334 billion (2016)[3]

As long as there's the GPL, the Linux Foundation (the keepers of the kernel), and the purists at Debian, I'm not concerned. In fact, Red Hat's commercial success should be celebrated as far as I'm concerned.

Purists at Debian?
Red Hat is a large US Defense Contractor, closely aligned with the objectives of NSA. Why do you think every distro "had to" adopt Systemd? Red Hat is better than Microsoft because it's FOSS. At least there's that.

If you had followed the debate on whether Debian should adopt systemd you would recall that the argument that carried the day was that systemd was being actively developed and maintained while there was trouble getting anybody to maintain sysvinit, much less improve it.
I'm no fan of systemd, but it wasn't all about money or control. In the FOSS universe people mostly work on what they *want* to work on, and if nobody wants to work on a particular project then other projects will take its place.

dreamer wrote:Purists at Debian?
Red Hat is a large US Defense Contractor, closely aligned with the objectives of NSA. Why do you think every distro "had to" adopt Systemd? Red Hat is better than Microsoft because it's FOSS. At least there's that.

I guess I'm going to have to get some more tinfoil.

timkb4cq wrote:If you had followed the debate on whether Debian should adopt systemd you would recall that the argument that carried the day was that systemd was being actively developed and maintained while there was trouble getting anybody to maintain sysvinit, much less improve it.
I'm no fan of systemd, but it wasn't all about money or control. In the FOSS universe people mostly work on what they *want* to work on, and if nobody wants to work on a particular project then other projects will take its place.

Do we know what really happened to Ian Murdock? We don't.

Tell Red Hat to start sending some of that sweet, sweet dirty money this way, then.

Stevo wrote:Tell Red Hat to start sending some of that sweet, sweet dirty money this way, then.

The price you will have to pay is adopt systemd and be assimilated. And I am not joking.

Come on, we need to take it easy here.

Let's wait to see if xfce 4.14 comes with any systemd dependencies by default. No point getting all worked up right now.