Subj : Re: system of choice
To   : Chicken Head
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sun Aug 18 2019 12:40:00

-=> On 08-17-19 17:33, Chicken Head wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 CH> At my "day job" we support all variants of linux, not limited to the
 CH> RPM based ones.  Personally I developed a deep hatred of RPM back at
 CH> the turn of the last century...dpkg has it's limitations and
 CH> frustrations but I'd take that over RPM any day.

I've had mostly reasonable experiences with RPM, but have had the odd run in
with RPM that was tricky to resolve.  

 CH> Just had to do my first SuSE install...what an odd system.  I don't
 CH> like it.

I haven't used it for years.  It was odd back then and I didn't like it. :)

 CH> As for SysV init I hear you...I hate systemd with the fire of a
 CH> thousand suns. It drove me to FreeBSD.  And FreeBSD's rc-based system

I just hate the fragmented documentation.  At least SysV I could manipulate by
first principles, if my rote memory failed me.

 CH> actually is not that bad...I find it amusing that my FreeBSD server
 CH> boots up so much faster than my SystemD based Linux server.

My early Linux experiences were with a BSD based init, and I found that pretty
straightforward to follow.


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