[Discuss] SysVinit vs. systemd

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 12:21:00 EDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Mike Small <smallm at panix.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't call Slackware fringe. Maybe that's just me.

>From point of view of history, it's certainly core to the evolution of
our culture.  Instant street cred at LUG meetings if you run Slack (or
Gentoo).

>From a commercial/IT usage point of view, the firms offering Slackware
virtual hosting are pretty fringe, and no major IT suppliers are
shipping it. Red Hat, Ubuntu, and maybe still Suse are the only major
providers to IT. (There are others in the embedded spaces of course.)

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