[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[motk]

On 22/04/2024 9:12 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> A client of mine has office routers running pfSense, which is based on
> FreeBSD. I find some oddities, compared to Linux. For example, the “route”
> command (for maintaining the routing table) has no option to list the
> contents of the routing table: instead, you have to use an entirely
> different command, “netstat -r”, for that.

Muscle memory is like that.

> There was a time when the BSDs had a much superior network stack to Linux.
> Those days are gone.

They're working on it all the time at least, it's still performant and 
the BSD/Linux network guys have an amicable rivalry.

> And by the way, the BSD world is working on its own systemd-lookalike,
> too. It’s called “InitWare”.

Of course. Once you realise that you're not just doing the 
fork-child-daemonise thing for a single binary (which had all sorts of 
exciting edge cases), you have to start thinking is services. What are 
you expecting to be up? What state should it be in? What should a 
running target look like?

Further: modern IT optimises for cattle, not pets.

People forget that sysvinit and crontab and stuff were just itches 
scratched. People made a lot of money with proprietary service managers, 
batch managers, etc, for the legacy unixes. Now you have systemd which 
just works and now you can go home and drink beer. Bonus: don't have to 
deal with sweaty-palmed salespeople at trade shows.

-- 
motk