Recently, a piece of news was released that has sparked controversy on the net, and that is that on a Fedora mailing list when someone found out they couldn't tag Poettering in a bug report because your Red Hat Bugzilla account was disabled, to which Poettering replied that he created a personal account.
For those who are unaware of Poettering, I can tell you that it is a 41 year old developer who lives in Berlin, was born in Guatemala City and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. He is best known for his work on systemd, but other of his projects have also been widely adopted.
Despite being almost universally adopted in almost all major Linux distributions, systemd remains highly controversial. Systemd is just one example of a trend towards richer system administration tools on modern xNix systems, such as SMF on Solaris and its various open source descendants or Apple's release.
Released by Lennart Poettering in 2010 and released under the GNU LGPL, Systemd is a software package that provides a range of system components for Linux operating systems. The first component of systemd is the init system, its goal is to provide a better framework for managing dependencies between services, allow parallel loading of services at startup, and reduce calls to shell scripts.
Another of his great works is the PulseAudio sound server which has been included in Fedora and Ubuntu for a decade and a half, although it is gradually being replaced by PipeWire, which requires less computing resources. Poettering also developed the flexmDNS Linux service for resolving multicast DNS queries, which was later merged with (and renamed) Avahi. This is what zeroconf handles on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. This is the FOSS equivalent of Apple's implementation.
Among his more recent projects, two are particularly interesting: mkosi, which generates OS images (the name means make OS image), and casync, which he describes as "a file system image distribution tool." The functionality of casync incorporates some of that of rsync and OStree. Both are part of his general vision for building and deploying modern Linux distributions.
Leading open source developer responsible for several outstanding projects joined Microsoft and remains focused on systemd development. While some may not always agree with his views or his approaches to handling certain things, his enormous contributions to the world of Linux/Open Source and his dedication to advancing the ecosystem along the way cannot be underestimated. the years.
That Lennart Poettering, creator of Systemd, leaving Red Hat for Microsoft may be a surprise for many, but noor let's forget that Microsoft has employed several Linux developers and other leading open source developers over time.
Microsoft currently employs the inventor of Python, Guido Van Rossum, the inventor of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, was employed by Microsoft in 2016 when it acquired Xamarin, Nat Friedman served as CEO of GitHub, Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux, was an employee of Microsoft, Steve French He works for Microsoft as a Linux CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 maintainer and member of the Samba team.
Microsoft employs a large number of upstream Linux developers such as Matteo Croce, Matthew Wilcox, Tyler Hicks, Shyam Prasad N, Michael Kelley and many more, beyond the usual names immediately recognizable by Linux enthusiasts and developers.
Also earlier this year, Christian Brauner, another longtime Linux kernel developer, joined Microsoft. Like Lennart, Christian Brauner resides in Berlin and, after spending half a decade at Canonical, he moved to Microsoft, where he worked on the Linux kernel, LXC, systemd, and more.
While Linux is widely deployed on Azure, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) continues to prove its worth, Microsoft is working on Mesa to support various graphics/compute APIs in Direct3D 12, provides good Hyper-V support in Linux kernels secure and also maintains several internal Linux distributions such as CBL-Mariner and Azure Cloud Switch.
Microsoft continues to attract more upstream Linux developers, including some familiar faces in the open source ecosystem.
Source: https://lists.fedoraproject.org
Two programs that I detest the most in GNU/Linux are yours, Systemd and Pulseaudio 🤷♂️
Well, it's not bad news.
What is worth commenting on is the number of languages that some of them handle.
Miguel de Icaza speaks Spanish (OBVIOUSLY), English and French, I don't know if he speaks more.
So what goes on in the heads of these polyglot, multifaceted and immigrant people, they think outside the box.