On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:10 PM, 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. > RHEL6 is using upstart currently in the 6.0 and 6.1 releases. > 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
