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

[Sujit K M]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Raul Cuza <raulcuza at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I have not had a problem that these new systems solve either.  I
> actually prefer daemontools out of all of these (not an init system, I
> know, but close enough for this discussion, I think), because it's very
> simple.  In the case of a server, I'm not sure why one would want
> something more than something like daemontools.  I can see an argument
> for something more sophisticated for a desktop environment but I'm not
> sure what that would really look like.  I'm pretty biased in my opinion
> here though, so YMMV.

Please stop promoting proprietary solutions to the list.

>> 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.
>>
>> Raúl
>>
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