On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Andrew Wyatt <andrew at fuduntu.org> wrote: > > >> > > This is an unfortunate problem in the community today, anyone who > disagrees > > with status-quo is "just an antique", it's insulting to say the least. > It > > doesn't matter our experience, we're just "causing trouble" because we > > "don't want change" which is an excuse that isn't even remotely true. > > Eventually when all these "old guys" leave, all that will be left are > the > > inexperienced kids and that's when the real problems will begin to > surface. > > The people promoting change most like do not have a large installed > base of their own complex programming to maintain or any staff to > retrain. > They likely don't, if they did they would gain the experience to know better. Fortunately, we have CentOS 6 which still has a lot of life left in it. > > > There are a few good reasons to adopt systemd, but the bad outweigh the > > good in my opinion. > > My opinion is that if a new system is really better, then it should be > capable of handling everything the previous standard did > transparently. If it can't, then it's not really better. It is just > different. > I agree, completely. Who would replace the hood of a car with half a hood? It might have really awesome flames painted on it, but at the end of the day it's still half a hood.