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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] systemd
From:       Anton Aylward <opensuse () antonaylward ! com>
Date:       2017-07-15 20:44:02
Message-ID: 034e3a41-f5ae-231b-ce27-1a88a9cca65a () antonaylward ! com
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On 15/07/17 01:09 PM, ianseeks wrote:
> It will probably evolve/morph into something else when the need arises, 
> remember sysvinit wasn't the first init system.

Quite true.  And even so, SysVinit, or rather the collection of start-up scripts
under /etc in the organization we recognise. evolved a long way between its
first appearance in the early USG packages, though SYSIII into SYSV and though
the revisions of SYSV1...4, through the "great etc rationalization", underwent a
sea change when it was incorporated into Linux, has turned out differently in
different branches of Linux.  Along the way, the BSD variations of *NIX have
always done the start-up and initialization differently from the mainstream UNIX
and Linux.

The of course there are the Big Name Vendor version of UNIX that were never
actually called UNIX, running on various Big Iron.  Many of them at lest started
with different ways of doing things to ameliorate the discomfort of the
sysadmins more used to the archaic Big Iron operating systems.  Those too
evolved, learning from each other, learning form small systems like SCO.

To claim that SysVInit is the One Way, the Right Way, The Way It has Always
Been, is incorrect to start with and exceedingly fatuous.

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