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Reordering the boot for fun and profitReordering the boot for fun and profitPosted Jan 17, 2008 22:19 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)In reply to: Reordering the boot for fun and profit by Thue Parent article: Reordering the boot for fun and profit
""" Calling them "halt", "reboot", and "singleuser" would be too easy. """ Indeed. Debian could call them "halt", "reboot", and "singleuser". Ubuntu would call them "Stop", "Restart" and "Just Me". Fedora would not be able to decide for their next release, and call them "Zero", "Six" and "One" as placeholders, until the Ubuntu scheme caught on and they would rename to "Zero - Stop", "Six - Restart", and "One - Just Me" with a popup advising you of the fact that their devs do not approve of the Ubuntu naming scheme but that if you, as a user, choose to use it, that is your business, but implying that they will think less of you for it. OpenSuse would take a long time to decide, but eventually end up calling them Yast-Stop, Yast-Reboot, and Yast-Single-User. Slackware users would continue to enjoy the 0,6,1 naming scheme, and ask defensively, what it is you don't like about tgz archives. PCLinuxOS fans would not really know what is being talked about but point you at distrowatch.com to show that they're the best. A few Debian straglers would claim that the change will only lead to RPM hell. Jonathan Schwartz would blog about it, attributing all of the benefits of this wonderful transition to Java.
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+5: Funny (NT) Posted Jan 18, 2008 1:39 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] Since I have to have some text here, else LWN comment editor complains....
Reordering the boot for fun and profit Posted Jan 18, 2008 1:49 UTC (Fri) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983) [Link] This has the structural tone of a classic. We need a place to store it, but not just a place to enshrine its wisdom and wit. It must be open to allow a branch where it can be embellished and polished to the finest finish possible, albeit, still allowable by the Lords of the Wiki. While the original should be venerated as the Core. The Branch should be known by a related but better naming, I modestly suggest it become the Kernel-Humorous. Just think to the delicious mayhem when the Gentoo-DOM add their non-taxable, non-profit two cents. And think of the better Debian embodied in the Free Solaris skewing free of reason. Of course, it would not be done until the better Unix build as exhibited by the Windows-Whatever were allowed to make their mark. Only then would it be done with their six point "x". Ah the horror ...
Reordering the boot for fun and profit Posted Jan 27, 2008 21:25 UTC (Sun) by djlin (subscriber, #44831) [Link] As a point of order, Gentoo actually *already* does this. It starts with runlevel "boot" and then moves to runlevel "default." The scripts themselves contain information about dependencies and the init system takes care of everything. It's actually fairly nice.http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml? part=2&chap=4 Of course, I've never actually set up my system to actually start X from my init scripts, so I'm not sure what that would entail...
Reordering the boot for fun and profit Posted Jan 18, 2008 2:46 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I think this is the funniest comment I've ever seen on LWN...
Funny comment Posted Jan 18, 2008 4:04 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] I, too, chuckled. I'm glad to see that there's still some creative Unix/Linux humor out there. :-)
Reordering the boot for fun and profit Posted Jan 18, 2008 5:05 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] > Indeed. Debian could call them "halt", "reboot", and "singleuser" > Ubuntu would call them "Stop", "Restart" and "Just Me". Let's rename /etc as well, shall we?
Reordering the boot for fun and profit Posted Jan 18, 2008 9:03 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link] Please do, it is probably older than half the readership.
Reordering the boot for fun and profit Posted Jan 18, 2008 11:43 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] Gentoo would trigger a dip in the world petroleum supply with a flamewar on a dev list, leaving no survivors with the will to effect any changes, and just keep the old stuff due to inertia.
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