For systemd, I learned a lot from this series in fedora Magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org/systemd-converting-sysvinit-scripts/
Tony > On Jan 30, 2016, at 20:52, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > Is there a transition guide from 4,5,6 distros to 7 distros? > Something like "if you used to do XXX with init, this is > how to do XXXd with systemd", for all the bits of the distro > that made large behavioral changes with RHEL7/CENTOS7/SL7 ? > > The transition from SL6x to SL7x is challenging for those of > us who set up our Linux environments with init, Gnome2, etc. > years ago and copied them mostly intact from distro to distro > (and turned off selinux, which was easier than learning it). > > I accept that with SL7 I must learn systemd, selinux, new > versions of applications such as firefox, evince instead of > acrobat, and how to compile and maintain mate because gnome3 > designers favor glitz over preserving procedural workflows. > > The sparse documentation I've seen explains RHEL7 in terms > of itself, not in terms of transitions, especially for > applications added by customers on top of the distro. > The libraries changed also, so I will be porting, > rewriting, even abandoning some of those applications. > As much work as this is, it is better to do it now, > before more applications are added. > > So - are there any documents, useful magazine articles, > websites, that make the transition less difficult, that > explain how to redesign procedures and port applications? > > Keith > > P.S. Getting angry and vengeful is tempting but not > productive. Decades ago I worked for Tektronix, when the > flagship 7000 series of oscilloscopes was replaced by the > new and very different 11000 series. Sales of both series > plunged when customers realized that Tektronix would not > support their workflows in the future, and bought predictable > lab and production instrumentation elsewhere. I wonder if a > similar sales plunge is happening at Redhat now? I had such > hopes for Ubuntu/Canonical, but they have the same disease. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
