Alan Formy-Duval

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Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent
United States

Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.

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Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent
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Why I support systemd's plan to take over the world

David, you make a great point regarding the age of SysV init, it also existed in the Solaris OS, and Sun set out to replace it. Their solution was SMF, or Service Management Facility. So, I think your argument "FOR" systemd is quite valid.