systemd discussion

[John Austin]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 07:59 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 06:06 PM, JB wrote:
> >
> > I am also surprised (have been for long time) by seeing Linux projects violating
> > UNIX principles of software development.
> 
> Linux isn't Unix. It sounds like you'd be happier running, er, Unix - or 
> a BSD - rather than a Linux distro that is considered to be the most 
> cutting-edge one available.
> 
> 
> > In this particular context, I am disappointed that they, apparently, lack
> > oversight by management, starting with the design phase.
> 
> Management? Who's that? FOSS "management" mostly falls to the 
> developers, since they're doing the work.
> 
> But regardless who you choose to identify as management, you'll probably 
> find that they've been very supportive of systemd, mostly because it 
> solves lots of real-world problems in an elegant way. Sure, there have 
> been glitches (and squabbles about timing - systemd punted from F14), 
> but again, this is a running-with-scissors distro.
> 
> Personally, I'm hugely impressed with the sped-up boot and shutdown 
> times, and the detailed reporting (did something fail?) provided by 
> systemctl.
> 
> Fedora is lucky to have flame-proof developers like LP who aren't afraid 
> to try something new...
> 
> - Mike

+1

John