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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] systemd
From:       ianseeks <bingmybong () btinternet ! com>
Date:       2017-07-16 7:58:12
Message-ID: 45461841.3dKuvD4N2i () lianli
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On Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:43:42 BST Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Anton Aylward
> 
> <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My understanding is that most of the biggest complaints is that
> systemd doesn't do things the Unix way - do one thing and do it well.
> Like I said, I don't have a reason to not use it.
Thats desperate mis-information from the anti-crowd. 

> There were many other init system replacements in the mix before
> systemd "won".  Upstart was one that Ubuntu was working on.  Further,
> we still have many DEs - KDE, Gnome, xfce, etc.  Sometimes it's not
> about winning.  It's having people willing to maintain it.
Systemd "won" because it solved more problems than the others.  RedHat was as 
upstart advocate until systemd solved more problems than upstart.
 
> If you go back to the OS/2 vs Windows era, the winner isn't always
> considered the best but the one that took over.  I came to linux from
> OS/2.  I've kept up with OS/2 developments, and there is even a new
> release by a company called Arca Noae.
> 
> https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion/
> 
> I still make use of WinCE on my Workpad Z50 even tho I can run  NetBSD
> on it.  Sometimes you just have to go with what works.


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