Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own Posted by Unknown Lamer on Mon April 01, 11:25 from the watch-the-world-fork dept. In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu hogging email client, leading to the new systemd libc: " Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We are sick of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the OS userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new libc is not available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that have not yet adopted systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a home-grown display server (Wayland) over the generally accepted one (Mir) we decided creating an incompatible libc would be the best approach to create a strong platform following a strict release cadence." On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..." ---- Well, at least I won't have to worry about incompatible patches in the first release or two... As for the API call -- if only programming editors had spell check built-in back in the 60's.. Above was from slashdot.org...a 'reputable' source...usually... Though in this case...all I can say is this is really gonna screw compat with other apps... ;-| -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org