[CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems
Leon Fauster
leonfauster at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 9 11:19:22 UTC 2014
Am 08.10.2014 um 20:25 schrieb Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>:
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> But oddly, he didn't even mention that there would be a real simple
>>> solution - just add backwards-compatible improvements instead of
>>> actively wrecking the interfaces everyone else had depended on for
>>> decades.
>>
>>
>> "decades". That, by itself, already calls for an update, no?
>
> No, do you dig a new foundation for your house every 10 years? Trade
> in your wife and kids?
>
>> But so did other systems, but they later found out that sometimes you have
>> to break this backwards to infinity compatibility in order to get some big
>> progress.
>
> Only if the design was bad in the first place. And if the design was
> really bad, there wouldn't be any users to infuriate by breaking the
> interfaces they use. But the unix design that linux and linux
> distributions copied was pretty good, including the way init started
> things.
was - the requirements at that time were nearly/completely
different. We have different scenarios right now.
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LF
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