Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:16:19 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> Now that I'm basically forced to have a init thingy, that is a
>> additional reason not to reboot.  In the past, another distro, the init
>> thingy would break and I couldn't boot.  I despise having to have a init
>> thingy.  If I ever replace the hard drive that has my OS with a SSD or
>> something, the separate /usr is gone.  Maybe I can ditch the init thingy
>> at that point.
> init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva} experiences.
> The way the kernel handles them is very different and the tools used to
> build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used their on init thingy
> builder, as did most distros, whereas we now have a standardised tool
> that works well in a greater range of situations.
>
>

I've already had one fail on Gentoo.  It was about the 2nd or 3rd time I
rebooted after starting to use it.  The tools may have changed but the
experience hasn't.  It's one reason why I make certain to keep older
kernels/init thingys around so that I can boot. 

I don't see me liking the init thingys in my lifetime.  I'm to old to
start trusting them given the large number of failures I've had. 

Dale

:-)  :-)