On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Clem Cole wrote:

[ Excellent screed elided ]

> That said, I give the Linux folks great credit for the addition of 
> modules was huge and it took BSD and the other UNIX systems a few years 
> really pick up that idea in the same way (yes Solaris, Tru64 and 
> eventually HPUX etc.. had something too but again - my comment about 
> being generally available applies).

Wasn't SunOS first with dynamic kernel modules, or is my memory worse than 
I thought?  Linux may have been around at the time, but we never used in 
the shop until much later (Red Hat, nicknamed Dead Rat).

> So here is the issue, how to do move the ball forward?   BSD, then 
> Linux, became the 'stronger strain' and pushed out the old version.  
>  The problem is the ROMs in my fingers (like Dave) never got 
> reprogrammed so some of the 'new' becomes annoying.   Will I learned to 
> like systemd?   We shall see...

Never mind "systemd"; I'm having enough trouble coming to grips with 
"launchd" on the Mac...  Gimme /etc/inetd.conf any time.

-- Dave