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For the servers I run, boot time isn't an issue. I might reboot a server once a year, and booting in 10 seconds vs 40 seconds isn't really an issue. What is an
by cpncrunch 12y ago
For the servers I run, boot time isn't an issue. I might reboot a server once a year, and booting in 10 seconds vs 40 seconds isn't really an issue. What is an issue for me is stability. I don't really care about "hideous shell scripts" as long as they work.
- hobarrera 12y agoBut linux isn't all about servers, there's a lot of desktop users out there. And having desktop and server diverge at a kernel/init level seems too much burden to maintain.
- felixgallo 12y agono, there are almost no desktop users out there; certainly, far fewer, probably by two orders of magnitude, than server and embedded installations; and the divergence in favor of doing things the desktop developers' way is very much the tail wagging the dog.
- rwmj 12y agoVirtual machines, containers and appliances all require very short boot times, because they may be created and booted frequently.
- digi_owl 12y agoSometimes it feels as if these would be better served with the age old DOS flat files than something as convoluted as a *nix init. This because if a "service"/daemon fails to come up, you may as well scuttle the whole VM/container/appliance and spin up another in its place.