Distribution quote of the week [LWN.net]

Basically, Debian is seriously behind the curve on this, but we're so used to our familiar, comfortable problems that we don't necessarily see the amount of pain that we're enduring that we don't have to endure. As Charles noted elsewhere on this thread, once you start looking at and maintaining either systemd or upstart configurations instead of init scripts, you realize what sort of rock you were beating your head against and how nice it feels for the pain to stop.

-- Russ Allbery

Distribution quote of the week

Posted Jul 23, 2013 1:20 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] (2 responses)

good to know that Russ thinks so. Is he willing to pay me for the time I can't bill clients, modifying all the custom initscripts I've written for them when distros stop supporting sysVinit?

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Posted Jul 23, 2013 2:24 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

But systemd supports initscripts (or is that support not part of the API stability promise?). Sure, you miss a lot of the fancy, useful features, but they should work with the proper headers.

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Posted Jul 23, 2013 7:07 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Are you willing to pay Russ for all the work he's done to provide you with a product you can sell to your clients?