On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: >>> >> 1. See the systemd myths web page >> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html > > In the interest of full disclosure, that page is written by one of the > primary authors of systemd, so we shouldn't expect an unbiased opinion. > (Not saying it's wrong, only that it's important to understand the > perspective an author might have.) One thing that bothers me very much when reading that is the several mentions of how you don't need to learn shell syntax as though that is an advantage or as if the author didn't already know and use it already. As if he didn't understand that _every command you type at the command line_ is shell syntax. Or as if he thinks learning a bunch of special-case language quirks is somehow better than one that you can use in many other situations. When you get something that fundamental wrong it is hard to take the rest seriously. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com