On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:37:10PM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
LSB had just finished standardizing the init scripts and now we're
going to break things again. Users *are* going to complain.
Analysts *are* going to say Linux is fragmented. Microsoft *is*
going to publish studies saying that Linux has higher TCO because
of multiple init systems ;-)
This doesn't mean there should be a single codebase. Multiple
systems could compete as long as they are 100% (or maybe just 99%)
compatible config files and user interface.
All the init systems should be parallel installable, so the choice is
only for the default init system.
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Pat