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Autore: Joel Roth
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Oggetto: Re: [DNG] What is an init system?
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 07:58:35AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Joel Roth via Dng said on Sat, 18 May 2024 09:48:55 -1000
>
> >Here's another good read:
> >
> >systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
> >
> >https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/
>
> Euuuuuu, that guy again? Man, I thought I'd heard the last of Mr.
> Uselessd, an apologist for the architecture of systemd, who fielded his
> own named-to-fail subset of systemd.
>
> He really loves to hold forth, doesn't he? He's always been that way.
>
> The clown mentions daemontools twice, once as "their own preferred
> alternatives like a hypothetical on-demand service launcher" and once
> as something recommended by the Busybox guy circa 2010. Nowhere does he
> mention that daemontools was available in 2001, ready to plug into
> /etc/inittab with a simple "SV:12345:respawn:/command/svscanboot", and
> doing parallel instantiation, long before anyone else. This clown
> continued and still continues the false-choice fallacy of systemd vs
> sysvinit vs upstart. This guy raised our hopes only to disappoint:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg01849.html
>
> Continue forward in the thread, and notice how he "uselessly" got our
> hopes up when we should have been looking for alternate distros (or
> BSD).


Is this history otherwise relevant? I'm asking because it
seems like a fairly thorough, readable account.

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