[talk] In Contrast to BSD init, A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)

Sujit K M kmsujit at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 09:43:29 EDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Raul Cuza <raulcuza at gmail.com> wrote:
> In light of the recent discussion on *BSD and init system, I thought
> this history of modern init systems a interesting contrast:
> http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
>
> By definition of "modern", the BSD style init is the "classical" that
> these systems are not. Maybe I don't understand the problems these
> alternatives are trying to solve sufficiently. If you can shed some
> light on it, I'd love to hear it.

Why don't you, any specific reasons?

>
> What I like most about the history is that most of those attempts at
> improvements have not impacted the systems I manage (conveniently
> ignoring the OS X fleets I've been in charge of at various times). For
> me, the classical solution gets the job done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2nhkx9/freebsds_jordan_hubbard_sees_need_for_a_modern/
>
> Raúl
>
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