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This is what you get if you have people in charge of developing an init system who never did any professional admin work and who apparently have a disdain for
by AnonymousPlanet 10y ago
This is what you get if you have people in charge of developing an init system who never did any professional admin work and who apparently have a disdain for everything Unix stands for.
- IshKebab 10y agoMaybe they want to improve Unix? This is undeniably the correct behaviour. It's only bad because everyone has gotten used to how things worked in the 70s.
- AnonymousPlanet 10y agoI believe we have to discern between Unix as a concrete implementation (what is a process, where do certain files go, etc.) and the design philosophy. My remark focused on the latter. I would very much like to see modernization in Unix as a technology. At the same time, I believe that Linux owes its success to the adherence to a number of Unix design philosophies. This has kept Linux flexible across a wide spectrum of use cases and prevented it from running into a dead end, becoming stale. Abandoning these foundations in order to optimize towards a very structured, hierarchical engineering ideal, will make Linux go more in the direction of BeOS or Windows. And I'm afraid that we don't have the resources that Microsoft uses to keep Windows competitive and backwards compatible.