[ale] Alright, it's time to move on from Linode

[Jim Kinney]

Let's calm down the tone on this please. I've used lots of different
kernels but I've never written one. 
"I'll have a double vodka xanax mocha latte with extra whipped cream,
please".
chill.
deep breath
take a walk and wait for the pounding in the head to subside.
On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 14:22 -0500, Michael Trausch wrote:
> Oh, wait? So you went on record as an expert in init systems, and
> you've not even written one? Sue me for misunderstanding, but that's
> seem to imply you've no expertise there. 
> 
> I *have* actually written a small init system with my needed features
> cherry-picked, for embedded systems. But you claimed to be more of an
> expert than I on the subject.
> 
> Yet more evidence that you're just full of it. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Jan 10, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 22:26:46 -0500
> > Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Since you've written your own init systems and the like and are
> > > *such* an expert there, I'll leave the actual exercise of the C
> > > code
> > > to you.
> > 
> > I'll leave the rest of Michael's post to stand on its own merit,
> > but
> > feel it necessary to clarify the preceding assertion...
> > 
> > I've never written an init system. I have no incentive to do so,
> > because Epoch, Runit and s6 do everything I need. After using Runit
> > the
> > last 3 months, I feel absolutely no desire to switch inits.
> > 
> > Perhaps Michael was referring to the fact that I cobbled together a
> > functional init out of the Suckless Init PID1 plus Bruce Guenter's
> > daemontools-encore process supervisor plus a set of shellscripts I
> > call
> > LittKit to enforce startup ordering on daemontools-encore. Or the
> > fact
> > that I later substituted Rich Felker's 16 line PID1 for Suckless
> > Init:
> > 
> > http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.htm
> > 
> > Perhaps the "you've written your own init systems" refers to the
> > fact
> > that I've installed non-packaged, straight-from-the-upstream Runit
> > and
> > Epoch inits on distros like Manjaro and Centos.
> > 
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm
> > 
> > But take it from me: I've never created an init from scratch. I
> > leave
> > that to people a lot smarter than I: Gerrit Pape, Subsentient, and
> > Laurent Bercot. 
> > 
> > My apologies to anyone who got the idea that I had written my own
> > init
> > systems from scratch.
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > Steve Litt 
> > January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
> > 
> > 
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