[ILUG] Re: Ubuntu and inet.d

[Niall O Broin]

On 28 Aug 2006, at 17:17, Nick Murtagh wrote:

> Niall wrote
>> There will be tears.
>
> Matej wrote:
>> I hope not -- and I was thinking about switching to Ubuntu! Glad  
>> that I
>> didn't.
>
> Why are init.d scripts so precious?

I don't know that init.d scripts are all that precious (and the  
scripts themselves, or derivatives thereof, will stay with any  
replacement system). However, people are attached to working systems.  
Perhaps the systems are not working as well as they could be in an  
ideal world but at least we're used to how they work. Inertia is a  
powerful force.

> Why are people assuming Canonical are going to screw this up?

Maybe because history shows us that major changes in software very  
rarely work correctly first time.


Niall