On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:06:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Some historical correctnesses about Canek:
> 
> - He has been here for years
> - He has contributed here for years
> - He supports systemd and has offered more help and explanation about
> systemd to it's users on this list than any other single person, bar
> none
> - He has never, not once, slagged off SysV Init, OpenRC or any other
> init system, ot the creators or the users
> - He has never posted rude or inflamatory comments about anyone arguing
> against him
> - He has never resorted to ad-hominem and never posted any knee jerk
> opinions about any other poster wrt their stance on init systems
> 
> If we look at the reverse we see a very different picture, and it's
> right here in this very thread. To the poster who rudely commented about
> Canek being a professor and that doesn't make him right and that he is
> one voice, step back pal and take a very long hard look at what you
> said. Yes, it doesn't make him right. Also doesn't make him wrong. His
> posts and the content are what make him right or wrong. There truly are
> fan bois on this list, but Canek is not one of them. It's the
> systemd-haters and Poeterring-haters who are being fan bois, painting
> all detractors with the same brush.

+1

It was Canek's rational explanations about systemd that made me
interested enough to try it, and I'm glad I did. He made good technical
arguments in favour of it whereas most of the arguments against it are
either based on Lennartphobia or false fact gained from other systemd
haters.

I also see the position as somewhat different with Gentoo, because openrc
is so much better than the other "traditional" systems out there, in fact
it shares some of the benefits of systemd. As a result, I run a mixture
of both systems. I prefer systemd now, but not enough to go through the
hassle of switching over an already working system. That wouldn't be the
case if those other systems weren't running openrc.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Irritable? Who the bloody hell are you calling irritable?