[175458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Oct 22 14:16:11 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:15:58 -0400
To: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141021201019.GE36267@dyn.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I'm reminded of the remark often attributed to DEC CEO Ken Olson,
roughly:
With VMS (their big complex OS) it might take hours searching
through manuals to find a feature you need while with Unix you can
determine in seconds that it is not available.
On October 21, 2014 at 16:10 asullivan@dyn.com (Andrew Sullivan) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:11:55PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> > But
> > for example some of my servers boot in seconds.
>
> One is reminded of a mail, included in the Preface to _The UNIX-HATERS
> Handbook_, available at
> http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/preface.html. Apparently,
> things really are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> Dyn, Inc.
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