Read Slashdot since 2003, but I almost never post. Sure, I'm still posting as AC. Posting here in the (hopeless) hope that somebody will read this and reconsider...
I've been an (advanced but uncertified) RHEL and CentOS system administrator and user for 15 years now. My first work started with Redhat Linux 9. I am now holding on to RHEL 6 for dear life despite spending significant effort evaluating RHEL 7. I find systemd distributions to be buggier, less reliable in general, and harder to administer. I won'
Perfect is the enemy of good. For all of my use-cases, good is good-enough. Then again, my use-cases are not your use-cases.
Now, you have piqued my interest. What sort of use-cases do you have that are dependent on a specific init system? The only thing I can think of is something so integrated into the low-level OS stuff, like starting/stopping the process, or system logging, that it will require a lot of development work to rewrite for systemd.
Never comment but... (Score:5, Informative)
Read Slashdot since 2003, but I almost never post. Sure, I'm still posting as AC. Posting here in the (hopeless) hope that somebody will read this and reconsider...
I've been an (advanced but uncertified) RHEL and CentOS system administrator and user for 15 years now. My first work started with Redhat Linux 9. I am now holding on to RHEL 6 for dear life despite spending significant effort evaluating RHEL 7. I find systemd distributions to be buggier, less reliable in general, and harder to administer. I won'
Re:Never comment but... (Score:1)
Perfect is the enemy of good. For all of my use-cases, good is good-enough. Then again, my use-cases are not your use-cases.
Now, you have piqued my interest. What sort of use-cases do you have that are dependent on a specific init system? The only thing I can think of is something so integrated into the low-level OS stuff, like starting/stopping the process, or system logging, that it will require a lot of development work to rewrite for systemd.
Care to fill me in?