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Widely ported, sure.

Widely ported, sure.

Posted Dec 31, 2005 9:52 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Widely ported, sure. by ncm
Parent article: NetBSD 3.0

Actually, topology-sorted init has been in SuSE since around 8.0, I believe. It is supposed to be part of the LSB since 1.3 but has remained widely unimplemented on other distroes (except, maybe, Gentoo).


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Widely ported, sure.

Posted Dec 31, 2005 11:53 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Gentoo does have topology-sorted init. I like it. But this kinda shows what's wrong with "*BSD vs Linux" comparision. Once you are comparing "*BSD kernel" and "Linux kernel" - comparision is more-or-less fair. But when you are trying to compare "*BSD" and "GNU/Linux" (and use just "Linux" to confuse everyone) - it becomes complicated. For every obscure feature found in *BSD you can find equally obscure GNU/Linux distribution where feature was "implemented for ages"! Not exactly fair comparision...

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