Jamie Lawrence wrote: <SNIP>
Some may see me as a "grumpy old man" for that. I see it as a technical conservatism for my production environments borne of having been burned by shiny-cool-new before one too many times, and a tired dislike of being paged out of bed over some chrome plated new hotness that crapped itself again.
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But when I start wondering if my init system has a flight simulator easter egg, well, there’s a problem, at least for me.
So nicely put! :-)
It is funny to see people use "but that approach is 40 years old!" on both sides of the argument.
I think I'll stick with 4 wheels on cars for the long term. (3-wheeled motorcycles, on the other hand, are somewhat intriguing as I get older)
Most of my systems are Linux these days, and I am mostly distro-agnostic, although my default does happen to be Debian. I do think I’m going to have to get back up to speed on FreeBSD again.
Boy would I be happy if I could get Xen Dom0, ZFS, and a DRBD-equivalent on BSD or SmartOS. Sigh... Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra