Hey Paul :) Yeah I remember you as well :) I hope you're doing well. I am going to try to drop by a meeting sometime soonish.
Thanks a lot for the info on the init changes, that is definitely the kind of thing I'm looking to get up to speed on. I'm planning to poke around and the latest CentOS for starters. Rich On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Rich Burroughs wrote: > >> Some of you may remember me, I used to be pretty active in the group >> years ago :) > > Some of us remember! :-) > >> I've been off in the Solaris world for the last few years but I'm >> interested in working with Linux again more. I was thinking about >> pursuing a certification and I wondered what recommendations people >> have about that. >> >> [....] Part of the idea is for me to dig back into Linux, and I >> think it could be useful from that perspective, regardless of how it >> might help with employment. > > I don't know about certifications, so this a more general observation > about a fundamental change that's coming down the pike. > > There's been a lot of work done to retire the System V-style init > scripts and runlevels. The main goals, as I understand them, are to > increase startup parallelization (for speed) and to provide better > ways of spelling out dependencies (to avoid the brittle nature of the > S?? and K?? symlink naming structure). > > So while the current versions of Debian and RHEL (and its derivatives > like CentOS) still pack init scripts into /etc/init.d/, bleeding-edge > distributions like Fedora are starting to use "systemd," one post-SysV > implementation: > > * http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd > * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd > > A project with similar goals is called Upstart, but my reading of the > literature suggests that systemd has a greater likelihood of future > success than Upstart. > > It'll probably be a couple years before any of the distributions > marketed at the entrerprise ship with systemd as the default init > system, but I'd suggest gaining at least a reasonable level of > familiarity with it during your Quest for Learning(TM). > > -- > Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
