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We've previously mentioned Eric Hameleers AKA alienbob AKA Alien BOB and his run-Slackware-from-removable-media project. He even created an account here to comment on our story about that. (His sole activity here, so far.)
He now blogs
I am being laid off by my employer, IBM. Jobs in the Netherlands move to lower-wage countries like Poland and India, while IBM changes course towards a "cognitive" future in which there is less interest in the traditionally skilled technical IT jobs.
Unparalleled (because forced) job cuts in the Netherlands are the result of that change of focus. Almost 10% of the IBMNL work force is sent away in a "re-balancing" operation and I am out of a job per November 1st.
[...] As long as I still work for IBM (seven weeks), I have access to Safari Books Online where I can freely access and use the available course materials which prepare for the RHCE exam. This will of course affect the time I can spend on Slackware. I commonly spend nearly every after-work hour on packaging, scripting, and assisting people online and via email. That stops now.
[...] I also cannot promise that--when I have found a new job--that I will be able to provide the levels of support that you may have gotten used to.
(Score: 4, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday September 15 2016, @05:02PM
SO IS THE init.d system that pretty much every distro reinvented or borrowed from BSD
The init.d system is from System V, not BSD. OpenBSD still uses the classic BSD rc system, where you have a big monolithic rc script to start everything. FreeBSD uses RCng, where every RC script advertises things that it requires and things that it provides and the init system orders them. I think NetBSD is similar to FreeBSD (and that parts of the FreeBSD system come from NetBSD, though I couldn't tell you exactly which). And, of course, the most popular desktop BSD uses Launchd.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:50PM
FreeBSD imported the NetBSD rc system ages ago, like in the FreeBSD 5.x days iirc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @07:50PM
And current SysV (in Debian) also advertises dependencies and runs things in parallel. Open the init file and check the header, like:
Properly written ones will source /lib/lsb/init-functions and not reinvent wheels unless really needed.
Also look for /etc/init.d/.depend.{boot,start,stop}