On 07/08/2014 12:44 PM, Hal Wigoda wrote: > You aren't old. And I am a young 21. three times over. All that means is I have to learn new stuff now 3 times to get it right! As some people on this list will attest to :) Soon I will be 26 (2^6). So that means that I have to then learn everything 6 times! Age is what you make of it. Senior moments are to be cherished. ;)' > > (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > >> On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: >>> >>> That presumes that your conservative attitude is the majority opinion >>> though. Systemd is one of the features that I have been looking forward >>> to in CentOS 7 because of the new capabilities it provides so while this >>> will surely drive some people away it will actually attract others and >>> if you think that this will lead to some sort of great exodus then I >>> think you are mistaken. Not everybody is this uncomfortable with change. >>> >> For the record, I'm not uncomfortable with change. I'm uncomfortable with stupid, >> poorly thought out, monolithic change that ignores half a century of the UNIX philosophy. >> And creating a daemon that tries to handle everything but the kitchen sink and implementing >> it in such a way as to make it nearly incomprehensible to me certainly qualifies >> as that type of change. >> >> Sysvinit may not be perfect, but it's UNIX. Systemd is... a lot of things, but more >> of a windows-like solution than I"m comfortable with. It's just dumb. Surely there could >> have been a better way of accomplishing their goals without creating the equivalent of >> Cartman's Trapper Keeper. >> >> And yea, I'm kind of an old white guy (is 38 old?) The guy who called that out as >> a negative is not helping his cause with me. This old white guy has been doing Linux >> administration when some people on this list were pulling the hair of girls they liked >> and eating bugs. >> >> (and if that was yesterday, I don't want to hear about it. :)) >> >> --Russell >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >