On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/03/12 03:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> <snip> >> [...] >> >> * It tries to unify Linux behaviour among distros (some can argue that >> this is a bad thing): Using systemd, the same >> configurations/techniques work the same in every distribution. No more >> need to learn /etc/conf.d, /etc/sysconfig, /etc/default hacks by >> different distros. > > > Out of the things you listed, this strikes me as the most important. Linux > really needs standards. When I install software on Windows, it knows how to > add its startup services. On Linux, this is all manual work if your distro > isn't supported, especially on Gentoo. If there's no ebuild for it, you > spend your whole day trying to make it work. > >
My day job's on the windows side of things... and as true as it is that the application developer knows the approach they're going to use today to get their piece of software to start when windows does (as often as not, doing so without the knowledge of the user), there's a *massive* range of ways to do just that, and they *do* vary as you move from one version of windows to the next... and tracking down what's actually starting at boot (and why) without tools explicitly created to give that information is an incredible amount of work on the side of the user and even the usual admin. I'm not sure I'd cite that as a positive benefit on the windows side of things... -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
