[vox-tech] Systemd thoughts?

[Mark's tech help]

On 2/25/2015 at 8:36 AM, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
>Yes, Mark, that was a little uncool.  Entirely new threads are best
>_not_ started as replies to existing ones.  It's better for a new 
>thread


Again, HUGE apologies for the faux pas.  I miss having my class account on a mainframe where I could see just what's going on header-wise..  pine, elm or such.  This web-based stuff is poopy.

>to systemd, and prevent its future return, like this:
>
># apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils
># apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
># echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: origin ""\nPin-Priority: -1' >  
>/etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd
>
>I'm actually looking forward to testing OpenRC[2] on this test 
>system, a
>well-made event-driven init utterly without the scope-creep 
>drawbacks
>that created notorious flamewars several years ago, and that some 
>LUGs
>are only belatedly noticing.
>
>Other distros such as Fedora and OpenSUSE that no longer provide 
>any
>other properly packaged inits will be a problem, but there are 
>plenty of
>alternative distro choices.
>


Great points--  you certainly know your stuff & it's great to have your expertise grace this Davis list!

>I respect Alison Chaiken immensely, and was of course pleased to 
>invite
>her to give this talk at SVLUG, and would not have dreamed of 
>speaking
>up to challenge any part of it, given that I was the meeting host.
>Listen carefully for the numerous highly doubtful points, like the 
>bit
>where she does a comparison based on number of lines of code of a 
>binary.
>
>

Should prove interesting indeed--  ;but though I'll likely remain all fuddy-duddy & Luddite, my subperfect tech chops & abysmal public speaking skills will  preclude my debating her.  But perhaps some Slackware champion(s) et al shall emerge to put together a dissenting presentation.