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On Sep 16, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> The Handbook X chapter needs a rewrite.  I've talked about it, but not =
had time to actually do it.

Us noobs (especially those of us with X troubles) are just ever so glad =
to hear that there's something [citation needed] wrong in the X chapter =
of the Handbook :-)

> systemd on many (most?) distributions now, I think.

Systemd is why some of us are trying to desert the Debian we've relied =
on for so long. Linux' solution to some problems isn't to just fix the =
problem, but to layer another big piece of software on the distro.

BSD has what seems to be a reasonable startup system. Please don't go =
over there.=20

--=20
Glenn English