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JdeBP on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ t...

Considering the broad range of such softwares that already exist, written by people such as Felix von Leitner, Gerrit Pape, Laurent Bercot, and so on, why do you think that Linus Torvalds is the person to write one? Or needs to write one?

* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

* http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/

* http://smarden.org/runit/runit-init.8.html

* http://www.fefe.de/minit/

* https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/guide/system-manager.html

noisy_boy on July 10, 2017 | [–]

There were many version controls systems before Git came along. He doesn't need to write it. But if he wants, he has the technical chops to do a damn good job of it.

digi_owl on July 10, 2017 | | [–]

Few did what Git does, take multiple forks and merge them.

Most that came before were good at forking, but not so good at merging.

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