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The Debian init system general resolution returns

The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 19, 2014 14:09 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: The Debian init system general resolution returns by jspaleta
Parent article: The Debian init system general resolution returns

> I really don't understand the advantage of trying to keep support for inittab.

Some of RedHat's paying customers might be able to explain the value of not breaking a running system better.


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The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 19, 2014 14:15 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Too late. RHEL 6 shipped with upstart.

The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 19, 2014 14:57 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

RedHat does not guarantee that stuff does not break during upgrades. And it's telling that no real paying customers (or not enough of them) bothered to ask for inittab support.

Systemd haters simply latched on to a minor detail and now it's becoming an icon of anti-systemd crusades.

The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 19, 2014 20:49 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (1 responses)

RHEL breaks stuff between major versions as if there was no tomorrow. The good people at Red Hat do try to keep stuff stable within the same major version of RHEL, which is good for more than a decade (i.e., longer than most servers last), so upgrades from one major version to the next are rarely required. Consequently, unlike Debian, Red Hat makes no attempt to even support upgrading between major versions of RHEL.

Debian, on the other hand, makes no attempt to be RHEL. If you want that sort of stability, be a Red Hat customer; it's their business, and they're really pretty good at it.

The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 20, 2014 10:46 UTC (Mon) by michich (guest, #17902) [Link]

Red Hat makes no attempt to even support upgrading between major versions of RHEL.
That's no longer true. There is a supported upgrade path from RHEL 6 Server to RHEL 7 Server (only on x86_64 so far). See KBase articles:


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