[Tfug] Well, now i've seen it all.

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

I remember that.  I was just starting with Linux and didn't have the
knowledge to join the panic for the "end of the world as we know it."  But
the world is still here.  And I can move disks from machine to machine
without problems generally.

Earl

On Tue, May 31, 2011 8:23 am, Dave Thompson wrote:
> Ubuntu has been using upstart since version 6.10 (2006), and the world
> hasn't ended. Here's an article describing why:
> http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57213. I'm guessing that the root of
> Bowie's discontent matches this line from the article: "modern desktop
> computers and servers are very different beasts from those in use ten
> [15] years ago".
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Amusingly, IIRC, this is how NeXT was.....Pure BSD, one big ass startup
>> script. :)
>>
>>> I'm surprised you're not pining for BSD style initscripts or DJB's
>>> daemontools...
>>>
>>> - Zack
>>>
>>>
>>
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