systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

[drago01]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> for decades. Fedora 14's init system isn't that different to the first version
>> of RHL (4.0) I started using back in 96.
>>
> This is somewhat misleading.  There have been many rewrites of the init
> system in the past decade.  In fact, the Fedora 14 init system has the
> capability to be quite different than the SysVinit scripts that were adopted
> in the mid-90s.  What is true is that Fedora 14 had not switched to using
> the incompatible-with-SysVinit features of its default (or any of its
> optional) init systems so the presentation and behaviour was almost the
> same as older SysVinit.

That's true but due to the way we used it upstart was more or less a
renamed sysVinit.