Apple's Tiger

Michel Salim michel.salim at gmail.com
Mon May 2 15:27:56 CDT 2005


2005/5/1, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben at lambda1.be>:
> The hard thing will indeed be to get a very distributed development
> community on one line. Eg: Will Ubuntu, or any other distro ever have
> the balls to do something drastic like throwing out sysvinit for a
> modern equivalent like launchd? Perhaps this is something that has to be
> worked out in a proof of concept first.
>
On the bright side, once one distribution decided to bite the bullet
and adopt such changes, if it demonstrably brings benefits, the more
distributed development communities should follow suit as well.

I wonder what happened to Seth Nickell's System Services:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4711

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Michel Salim ζž—ζ™Ίε‹‡
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