Hello everyone <3

[noisyb]

I'll troll and spread a little FUD on behalf of people who have better 
manners.. :)

This will only /reference/ a few circumstances in user-space and then 
ask an important question regarding kernel-space.

Recently, the user-space side of operating systems (that use the Linux 
kernel) have been streamlined to be more appealing to an unprofessional 
audience.

People who are probably not caring or aware of how operating systems 
function or what e.g. "Ready for the desktop." is supposed to even mean.

At the same time these valuable people are impressing their friends, 
neighbours and strangers (who happened to walk by on the road) with 
shorter reboot cycles of their streamlined operating system.

A key package in this streamlining of operating systems (that use the 
Linux kernel) is systemd, another iteration of the ideas that also led 
to the now defunct HAL project from a few years ago.

systemd promises to remove/hide burdensome transparency (AKA complexity) 
of the operating system from unprofessional users into an unauditioned 
program that uses proprietary config files.

I was so lucky so get in contact with systemd package maintainers of a 
popular operating system and they told me that they don't have enough 
people to keep up with the increasing speed of systemd updates/releases.

So NO auditioning of systemd is taking place in one of the most 
important operating systems that uses the Linux kernel and uses the 
trademark "Linux" in the promotional material.

The media is also still using "Linux operating system" or "Linux 
distribution" instead of just "operating system (that uses the Linux 
kernel)" to reference to these operating systems that are aimed at 
unprofessional users and where crucial parts are not auditioned.

The problem is that all users experience the streamlined user-space but 
call it "Linux".

Question: Wouldn't it be a good idea to enforce the Linux trademark 
(somewhen) in a way that all these streamlined operating systems use the 
word "Linux" more carefully (or not at all) in their promotional 
material? To make sure "correlation" isn't (deliberately) twisted into 
"causation" by the media /if/ the streamlining trend starts to cause 
serious regressions in transparency and reliability?

Or is that too much politics for the weekend?


Dirk
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