Myths not debunked but confirmed

Posted Jan 28, 2013 9:45 UTC (Mon) by danpb (subscriber, #4831)
In reply to: Myths not debunked but confirmed by anselm
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Couldn't agree more, i've frequently used this analogy myself when talking about SystemD to people. Just like GIT there's a bit of a learning curve because of the new concepts involved, but once you're past that, you'll never want to go back to the old ways.

Myths not debunked but confirmed

Posted Jan 28, 2013 18:10 UTC (Mon) by ThinkRob (guest, #64513) [Link] (3 responses)

This would be a better analogy if CVS and Subversion were portable and Git was not, and the standard response to complaints about the complete inattention to portability were "yeah, well just use Linux because I don't want to hold Git back by making it run on obsolete OSs -- besides, you can always just keep using SVN".

Myths not debunked but confirmed

Posted Jan 28, 2013 18:44 UTC (Mon) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]

> This would be a better analogy if CVS and Subversion were portable and Git was not, and the standard response to complaints about the complete inattention to portability were "yeah, well just use Linux because I don't want to hold Git back by making it run on obsolete OSs -- besides, you can always just keep using SVN".

Git technically works on non-POSIX systems, but it's painfully slow. CVS and Subversion were equal-opportunity crap.

Myths not debunked but confirmed

Posted Jan 28, 2013 20:30 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

> This would be a better analogy if CVS and Subversion were portable and Git was not,

Sysvinit scripts are _NOT_ portable.

Myths not debunked but confirmed

Posted Jan 28, 2013 20:39 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

Making systemd portable is essentially impossible (myth 16) and if it weren't, it'd be pointless (myth 13). So will you *please* stop bringing up this nonsense?