you might consider taking a look at Fedora as well. Systemd is standard there as of v15 or v16.
~~R Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad Rich Burroughs <[email protected]> wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
