On 07/21/2011 07:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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and as d said - as soon as they fixed it is called "outdated"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
+100
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