[Tfug] Well, now i've seen it all.

[Bowie J. Poag]

Actually, looking at Google Trends, it sort of *is* the end of the world. Linux has been in a state of popular decline for years. Things like this certainly don't help.

http://google.com/trends?q=Linux

..Just sayin'. :)



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On May 31, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Dave Thompson <dthomp325 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu has been using upstart since version 6.10 (2006), and the world
> hasn't ended. Here's an article describing why:
> http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57213. I'm guessing that the root of
> Bowie's discontent matches this line from the article: "modern desktop
> computers and servers are very different beasts from those in use ten
> [15] years ago".
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Amusingly, IIRC, this is how NeXT was.....Pure BSD, one big ass startup script. :)
>> 
>>> I'm surprised you're not pining for BSD style initscripts or DJB's
>>> daemontools...
>>> 
>>> - Zack
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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