Am 21.07.2011 13:14, schrieb Bryn M. Reeves: > On 07/20/2011 11:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> hopefully systemd will aslo live for 40 years as sysvinit >> did or the next replacement will be finished BEFORE release >> including the correspondending parts of the distribution > > Just to be clear as this has been mentioned several times in recent threads: > System V style initialisation is _not_ 40 years old. SysV was only released in > 1983 (and even after that time there were alternatives - the BSDs never adopted > this approach to system initialisation). so let it be 28 years now the last ten years subsystems are coming and going every incarnation/replacment is hyped as "so much better", has a lot of bugs which are fixed over some years and if most of them are fixed the next guy thinks he has a better replacement in the past there were real developers which was able to maintain and optimize code over a long time without permanently break backward-compatible, these days people start to throw away and begin from scratch in the hope they will not make old mistakes and suboptimal software-design again what is true, they all make a lot of new/other mistakes and as d said - as soon as they fixed it is called "outdated" and will be replaced again
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