Lennart Poettering, mahaliccin Systemd, ya bar Red Hat ga Microsoft 

Kwanan nan, an fitar da wani labari wanda ya haifar da cece-kuce a kan yanar gizo, kuma wannan shine akan jerin wasiƙar Fedora lokacin da wani ya gano ba za su iya yin taging Poettering ba a cikin rahoton bug saboda an kashe asusun ku na Red Hat Bugzilla, wanda Poettering ya amsa da cewa ya ƙirƙiri wani sirri account.

Ga wadanda ba su da masaniyar Waka, zan iya gaya muku cewa haka ne mai shekaru 41 developer wanda ke zaune a Berlin, an haife shi a birnin Guatemala kuma ya girma a Rio de Janeiro. An fi saninsa da aikin da yake yi akan systemd. amma sauran ayyukan nasa ma sun karbe su.

Duk da kusan an karbe shi a cikin kusan dukkanin manyan rarrabawar Linux, tsarin ya kasance mai cike da cece-kuce. Systemd misali ɗaya ne na haɓakawa zuwa ga kayan aikin gudanarwa na tsarin akan tsarin xNix na zamani, kamar SMF akan Solaris da zuriyarsa masu buɗewa iri-iri ko sakin Apple.

Lennart Poettering ya sake shi a cikin 2010 kuma aka sake shi a ƙarƙashin GNU LGPL, Systemd kunshin software ne wanda ke ba da kewayon abubuwan haɗin tsarin don tsarin aiki na Linux. Abu na farko na systemd shine tsarin init, burinsa shine samar da ingantacciyar tsari don sarrafa abin dogaro tsakanin sabis, ba da damar yin jigilar ayyuka daidai da lokacin farawa, da rage kira zuwa rubutun harsashi.

Wani babban ayyukansa shine uwar garken sauti na PulseAudio wanda aka haɗa a cikin Fedora da Ubuntu tsawon shekaru goma da rabi, kodayake a hankali ana maye gurbinsa da PipeWire, wanda ke buƙatar ƙarancin kayan aikin kwamfuta. Har ila yau, mawaƙa ya haɓaka sabis na Linux na flexmDNS don warware tambayoyin DNS mai yawa, wanda daga baya aka haɗa shi da (kuma aka sake masa suna) Avahi. Wannan shine abin da zeroconf ke sarrafa akan Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD da NetBSD. Wannan shine FOSS daidai da aiwatar da Apple.

Daga cikin ayyukansa na baya-bayan nan, biyu suna da ban sha'awa musamman: mkosi, wanda ke haifar da hotunan OS (sunan yana nufin yin hoton OS), da kuma casy, wanda ya bayyana a matsayin "kayan aikin rarraba hoton tsarin fayil." Ayyukan casyn sun haɗa da wasu na rsync da OStree. Dukansu wani ɓangare ne na gaba ɗaya hangen nesansa don ginawa da ƙaddamar da rarrabawar Linux na zamani.

Jagoran mai haɓaka tushen buɗaɗɗen tushe wanda ke da alhakin manyan ayyuka da yawa ya shiga Microsoft kuma ya kasance mai mai da hankali kan ci gaban tsarin. Duk da yake wasu ba koyaushe suna yarda da ra'ayinsa ko hanyoyinsa na sarrafa wasu abubuwa ba, ba za a iya yin la'akari da babbar gudummawar gudummawar da ya bayar ga duniyar Linux/Open Source da sadaukarwar da ya yi don ciyar da halittu gaba a hanya ba.

Wannan Lenart Poettering, mahaliccin Systemd, barin Red Hat don Microsoft na iya zama abin mamaki ga mutane da yawa, amma a'ako kuma mu manta cewa Microsoft ya yi amfani da masu haɓaka Linux da yawa da sauran manyan buɗaɗɗen tushen haɓakawa akan lokaci.

Microsoft a halin yanzu yana ɗaukar mai ƙirƙira Python, Guido Van Rossum, wanda ya ƙirƙiri GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft ta yi aiki a cikin 2016 lokacin da ta sami Xamarin, Nat Friedman ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaba na GitHub, Daniel Robin, wanda ya kafa Gentoo Linux, ma'aikacin Microsoft ne, Steve Faransanci Yana aiki don Microsoft a matsayin Linux CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 mai kula da kuma memba na ƙungiyar Samba.

Microsoft yana ɗaukar babban adadin masu haɓaka Linux masu tasowa kamar su Matteo Croce, Matthew Wilcox, Tyler Hicks, Shyam Prasad N, Michael Kelley da ƙari da yawa, fiye da sunayen da aka saba gani nan da nan masu sha'awar Linux da masu haɓakawa za su iya gane su.

Hakanan a farkon wannan shekarar, Christian Brauner, wani mai haɓaka kernel na Linux na dogon lokaci, ya shiga Microsoft. Kamar Lennart, Christian Brauner yana zaune a Berlin, kuma bayan ya shafe rabin shekaru goma a Canonical, ya koma Microsoft, inda ya yi aiki a kan Linux kernel, LXC, systemd, da sauransu.

Yayin da Linux ke yadu akan Azure, Windows Subsystem don Linux (WSL) yana ci gaba da tabbatar da ƙimar sa, Microsoft yana aiki akan Mesa don tallafawa APIs masu ƙira daban-daban a cikin Direct3D 12, yana ba da ingantaccen tallafi na Hyper-V a cikin amintattun kernels na Linux, haka kuma. yana kula da rabawa Linux da yawa a cikin gida kamar CBL-Mariner da Azure Cloud Switch.

Microsoft ya ci gaba da jan hankalin masu haɓaka Linux masu tasowa, gami da wasu sanannun fuskoki a cikin buɗaɗɗen yanayin muhalli.

Source: https://lists.fedoraproject.org