Re: [HTCondor-users] OT Re: Solved: Re: centos 7 problem

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think we all should get together and march on Linuses place chanting 'save us obi wan'. Going by his track record (git, subversion) it's the only way to have a sane init system.

I'm sure there are still distributions with "sane" init setups, for some definition of sane.

Back when I first encountered SYSV init I thought it was ridiculously overcomplicated compared to BSD-style flat files. I've messed with Upstart and Solaris's Service Management Facility and I can't say I like either of them yet, but we'll see. I feel like ones like Upstart that focus on parallel execution are solving a problem that's relevant for desktops and laptops, but not to servers; just the BIOS POST on a lot of my servers takes upwards of 30 seconds, so OS boot time doesn't really matter.

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D. Brodbeck

System Administrator,ÂLinguistics

University of Washington

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