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evolution

Posted Jan 28, 2013 23:56 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: evolution by iabervon
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

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Really, whom is this kind of discussion supposed to help? Grown-up people in computing ought to be able to make an argument based on facts.

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evolution

Posted Jan 29, 2013 11:37 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Facts?! In *this* industry?

Come on now. Why dirty a nice flamewar with nasty facts when you can have a stew of speculation and imputations of bad faith and attacks based on myths which are debunked in the very article this is a comment thread for?

The only thing we're missing is a nice car analogy! So let me provide one.

systemd's an Edsel with the trailer and aircraft-carrier-catapult attachments, sysvinit is a Peel Trident. (I just want a Volvo.)

evolution

Posted Jan 31, 2013 13:37 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

systemd is a flying submarine. sysvinit is a boat anchor with feathers.