[GoLUG] Mailing list, long term.

[Ron]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-08-17 20:21:

>>> At this point, allow me to introduce the Litt Principle. After 
>>> you've found a bunch of "solutions" that don't meet your needs, 
>>> the time arrives where best use of your time is to roll your 
>>> own.
>> 
>> Today I Learned - systemd used the Litt Principle.
> 
> I investigated a heck of a lot more alternatives than the systemd 
> people did. They investigated sysvinit and upstart, and called it a 
> day.

Citation on what they investigated?


It seems that they knew what they wanted (a services management system,
not yet another init system), they looked around, adopted "the Litt
Principle", and started a new project.

Perfectly reasonable.


> there was absolutely nothing wrong with sysvinit's PID1 in the 00's

And yet multiple teams of Linux experts at Canonical, RedHat, etc. were
looking to replace it.

Who are we to think has greater knowledge on the topic?



Also, I'll draw your attention to the fact that we're not in the 00's
anymore. Shockingly, technology requirements change over decades.


You're basically looking at a Ford F150 and whining that there were
perfectly good bicycles they could have built it upon.





> LOL, I investigated
> 
> LOL, on the LyX list
> 
> LOL, sucks to have an iPhone :-)
> 
> :-) Sendmail's a server
> 
> :-) That's why MindMeld
> 
> :-) Your definition of "enough" differs from mine :-)
> 
> 🙂

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