[gentoo-dev] Future Trends

2012-09-01 Thread llemike...@aol.com
Colleagues, I have been considering the current push to replace init with systemd for all Linux systems. systemd has been adopted by Fedora and openSuSE as the default init system - and to ensure it becomes the de facto standard, SysVInit has been deprecated to the extent it is now virtually uns

Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge

2012-07-18 Thread llemike...@aol.com
In the beginning there were root (/bin) and /usr programs See UNIX Programmer's Manual (Thompson, Ritchie, November 1971). [http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/manintro.pdf] /usr programs were "not considered part of the UNIX system" [bottom of page ii]. Root (/) contained all the system file