On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
big snip
> Just a plaintive cry in the wilderness, of course. But Slackware's
> continuing popularity in SPITE of the flaws you mention (and more that
> you don't) are evidence that simplicity and hands-on manageability is
Thanks, you said that well. While I will concede sysV init is
technically superior in concept, it's much faster and simpler
for me to get things working the way I want them on my Slackware
box than on my RedHat box. I spent a number of hours cursing at
redhat as I learned where all that stuff went that was in rc.inet1.
I really thought they were blithering idiots, though I've calmed
down a bit since.
I mean, how hard is it? I want to run processes and I want them
to run either as daemons or from inetd. It's much easier on
Slackware.
I understand that this BSDish vs SysVish is something like
a holy war with no real solution. I wish RedHat and Debian
had packages that would allow me to plug in BSDish init
for when it's appropriate. And if Slackware would let me
choose when installing...
Regards,
Eric
