you might consider taking a look at Fedora as well.  Systemd is standard there 
as of v15 or v16.

~~R

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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/
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