OT - Re: Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

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On 07/08/2014 12:44 PM, Hal Wigoda wrote:
> You aren't old.

And I am a young 21.  three times over.  All that means is I have to 
learn new stuff now 3 times to get it right!  As some people on this 
list will attest to :)

Soon I will be 26 (2^6).  So that means that I have to then learn 
everything 6 times!

Age is what you make of it.  Senior moments are to be cherished. ;)'

>
> (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.)
>
>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> That presumes that your conservative attitude is the majority opinion
>>> though. Systemd is one of the features that I have been looking forward
>>> to in CentOS 7 because of the new capabilities it provides so while this
>>> will surely drive some people away it will actually attract others and
>>> if you think that this will lead to some sort of great exodus then I
>>> think you are mistaken. Not everybody is this uncomfortable with change.
>>>
>> For the record, I'm not uncomfortable with change.  I'm uncomfortable with stupid,
>> poorly thought out, monolithic change that ignores half a century of the UNIX philosophy.
>> And creating a daemon that tries to handle everything but the kitchen sink and implementing
>> it in such a way as to make it nearly incomprehensible to me certainly qualifies
>> as that type of change.
>>
>> Sysvinit may not be perfect, but it's UNIX.  Systemd is...  a lot of things, but more
>> of a windows-like solution than I"m comfortable with.  It's just dumb.  Surely there could
>> have been a better way of accomplishing their goals without creating the equivalent of
>> Cartman's Trapper Keeper.
>>
>> And yea, I'm kind of an old white guy (is 38 old?)  The guy who called that out as
>> a negative is not helping his cause with me.  This old white guy has been doing Linux
>> administration when some people on this list were pulling the hair of girls they liked
>> and eating bugs.
>>
>> (and if that was yesterday, I don't want to hear about it. :))
>>
>> --Russell
>>
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