Re: On init in Debian
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:30:21, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2012 10:57 AM, "Svante Signell" <svante.signell@telia.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 14:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > > ]] Svante Signell
> > >
> > > > Regarding who is expert or not, can the people who considers
>
> themselves
>
> > > > as such (others shouldn't bother) do a _scientific_ comparison of the
> > > > three alternatives with respect to important features. First step
>
> would
>
> > > > be to write down which aspects are important, and continue from
> > > > there. Also, practical experiments are needed to verify statements
> > > > made.
> > >
> > > I'd rather work on making systemd better and a better init system for
> > > Debian than to satisfy some academic desire for a comparison of init
> > > systems.
> >
> > How on earth would anybody be able to make a decision if there are no
> > comparisons between the alternatives available?
...
> FYI, some level of analysis between the three init systems has been done.
> See [1].
>
> 1. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html
>
> A bit of a disclaimer here, this comparison was done by a systemd
> developer. OTOH he makes quite a convincing argument for systemd.
>
> ~ Andres
There's an hour-long talk [1] the same guy gave at LinuxConf in Australia last
March, which I found informative. This is linked to from [2], where there is
also a link to a PDF of the slides.
[1] https://blip.tv/linuxconfau/beyond-init-systemd-4715015
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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