> Its obvious that the systemd thing is a very controversial one, but I > see the move as just one of the "trying to keep up with the other > players in the field, i.e. launchd in OS X or svc services in > Solaris/Solaris distro's.
Just because other people make a mistake is no excuse for another person making it. (The argument, of course, is over whether systemd _is_ a mistake. My current opinion is that it is; while this is based on second-hand information only, unless the second-hand information turns out to be outright lies I am unlikely to change my mind.) As for everyone who disliked systemd already having bailed, see Devuan. > I find it funny people are fighting for the Sys V rc scripts. I > remember how much they were hated when Sun rolled out Solaris 2.x and > everyone wanted the BSD rc/rc.local/rc.xxxxx scripts back, because > the Sys V system was too complicated. Just because X is better than Y doesn't mean that Z isn't worse yet. (Here, X is BSD /etc/rc, Y is SysV-style rc scripts, and Z is systemd. All in suitable people's opinions, of course.) >>> and BSD is better on servers. >> *Ridiculously* contentious. [...] Linux [is] the dominant server >> platform of the WWW. "servers" != "the WWW". Not by a long shot. >>> That's one thing I liked about IRIX. It's still a true UNIX >>> variant, not "based on UNIX". So are Linux and BSD, right up until you start caring about the _legal_ definition of UNIX, which is why they call themselves as "based on UNIX" or "UNIX-like" or the like. But (IMO, of course) the legal sense is the only one in which they aren't UNIX. > I'm a big *BSD fan myself. There is a lot of great work that get > accomplished under the *BSD umbrella, that never seems to get proper > attention. The BSDs just sit there and work, for the most part. The major thing I see them lacking is a PR department. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
