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and as d said - as soon as they fixed it is called "outdated"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





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