[nylug-talk] ubuntu looking to replace init

[Ron Guerin]

Ruben Safir wrote:
>> That's the JFDI event.
>>
> 
> Right - its the only one that matters, IMO, which is why an 'events' driven
> init system isn't indearing to me, let alone my opinions of anything which
> involves Apple ideas.

I think it's wrong to call it an "Apple idea", all I said was that Apple
has recognized the same problem but come up with a different solution.
The upstart developer in fact feels he's done a better job of solving
the problems with init than Apple has.

> I just hate when I have to look through tons of broken documentation to do something
> which should be simple and straight forward.... 
> like turn of my network at keep it off or block this IP network in china.

Agreed.  But you're speculating about what _might_ go wrong with any
piece of software.

> Do I want my computer to notice that I plugged in an ehternet jack and have it 
> automatically turn on networking and mail?
> 
> No...

That would be a poor choice of event response in my opinion also.  Short
of a reason to suspect this is the intended default behavior for upstart
though, this is just musing about the world in general still.

> I have enough trouble already keeping my children from hacking the houses
> local network.  I lost about 40% of my bandwidth a few days ago because they decided to
> run their own private crossfire game server off the only exposed internal box.

Your children will outsmart you.  It is a law of computing.

- Ron