Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 20, 2019 8:35 UTC (Fri) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)
In reply to: Debian votes on init systems by Zolko
Parent article: Debian votes on init systems

> [...] MY distro, which was happily init-agnostic [...]

Pre-systemd Debian was init-agnostic in the same way Henry Ford allowed buyers of the Model T Ford to choose the color of their car.

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 20, 2019 17:01 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm sorry to inform you that customers could indeed choose the colour of their Model T:

But when the Model T first came on the market, customers could get almost any common color… except for black! Blue, gray, green, and red were all available, but not black. The first black Model T didn’t roll off the assembly line until five years later. Towards the end of the Model T’s life, six new colors were introduced, from Royal Maroon to Phoenix Brown to Highland Green.

The Debunker: Did the Model T Ford Only Come in Black?

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 20, 2019 18:33 UTC (Fri) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] (2 responses)

> I'm sorry to inform you that customers could indeed choose the colour of their Model T

The "any color provided it's black" period lasted from 1915 to 1925.

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 20, 2019 19:17 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

....and that was because the black paint cured/dried much faster than the other colors, allowing the production line to run much faster.

Debian votes on init systems

Posted Dec 22, 2019 11:54 UTC (Sun) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Nowadays we'd think it'd be obvious to simply make the line longer and/or split the paint job into multiple queues, but that was far from easy to accomplish, or even think of, in 1915.