15 Jun
2016
15 Jun
'16
4:47 p.m.
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.
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