[fnj]

> sysvinit was full of redundancy; apparently BSD found a way to make a thin abstraction layer to make init files clean.

They are completely different systems of init scripts. Just for starters, BSD does not have run levels, so the rcn.d directories and the maze of symlinks do not exist.

BSD init scripts themselves are much simpler mostly because there is a good system of helper functions which they all use, rather than every single script inventing its own wheel in sysvinit. Of course, this is just a discipline or convention, and sysvinit could be vastly improved if anybody was similarly industrious.

BSD init scripts also have completely different dependency management (PROVIDE and REQUIRE instead of numerical priorities). And the mechanism for disabling and enabling a script is via dead simple definitions in the single file /etc/rc.

[digi_owl]

Why i can't stop thinking that when Freedesktop people say there is a problem with Linux, they really mean there is a problem with Fedora...