On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:55:59AM -0800, Jim Gasek wrote:
> Related to the two big trends?:
> - upstart (changing of the start/stop paradigm)
> - NetworkManager (phasing out of traditional networking).
> 
> I dislike both trends.

This rings of "change is bad..." -- a mantra espoused by an engineer I
onced worked with.  Change can indeed be bad, but only when it is
pointless or produces negative results.  In both cases, these changes
effect a change for the better.  

The Network Manager change allows network configuration to be a lot
more flexible; granted that's most useful on a laptop, but there are
lots of laptops.  As others have pointed out, it in no way prevents a
static IP configuration.

The move away from the traditional init allows for booting the system
to be faster and more flexible.

I'd agree with anyone who said that Unix/Linux got a lot of stuff
right / does a lot of things better than other OSes do... but that
doesn't mean there is no room for improvement. =8^)

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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