Just a friendly reminder, salmon are doing quite well to the north...

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Linux might be 27 years old today, but it's aged me 40.

Good lord, it's been a while. Flashback (IIRC) to my first 0.93 install, on a PC with a screaming fast 80386 running at 12 mhz cpu, a meg of ram, and a massive 40 meg hard disk and a 2400 baud modem. I'm not sure I've ever felt a greater sense of accomplishment than seeing a HUGE "X" move around a grey screen the first time I got Xwindows running. That said? it's ages later, and I've had time to ponder. My grievances? I wish Linux had enforced common logging syntax similar to to the VAX/VMS logging system (component, severity, unique, and DOCUMENTED error number). X-Windows? Unnecessarily bloated. Yes, it was expedient at the time to port an existing windowing system, but that's been a bit of a boat anchor for Linux. I don't care that a windowing system is "network aware", that's the responsibility of individual applications. And systemd? an absurdly cumbersome solution to a problem that never existed. All in all? it's been a fun, frustrating, and rewarding experience. And tip of the hat to everyone in the community who has contributed in the past.

Redmine project management tool is an awesome ruby on rails app.

If it has been so well thought out, then why isn't there a parameter available for each service that says "don't automatically restart this if it fails"?

There are times that services WILL fail, and should not be restarted until the underlying problem is fixed.

And that binary log file? absolutely ridiculous, why? so i have to learn a new tool to find out why a service stopped? When before all i had to do was check the last 20 or so lines of a text file.

Poettering get to pretend that he's Linus. That, and it manages to start all of the services correctly on my system without hanging about 9 times out of 10. Aside from that? as previous posters have said, if a service stops/crashes for some reason? I want it to stay stopped until i can figure out what is wrong. MySQLD? out of disk space? I don't want that to keep on yo-yoing up and down until i have it fixed. I agree, SystemD should be optional, you want it on your phone/IOT device? fine. My server that I reboot about once every 2-3 months? I want init.

Billions of dollars in technology thwarted by a $1 sewing kit probably made in China? I feel soooo much safer now.....

LOL,

My laptop came with M$-Win, whacked it, installed Linus (funny how he can fit into such a small box eh?), then SIMH available here: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ and 'lo and behold? I've ALSO got a VAX 11/780 running at nearly 30 VUPS....Linux and VMS running on the same box? what could be better???.....(yep, the VMS install disks work just fine)....Now if I could just get my IMSAI 8080 running again.........