[arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

Jorge Almeida jjalmeida at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 19:34:51 EDT 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:53 PM, David Benfell
<benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
>>
> I'd add that djb has started several projects that have been, I think,
> very, very good, but then dropped them. It is harder to justify using
> his stuff when development is largely limited to one man's attention span.
>
To be fair, he doesn't drop them in a half-baked state, he just considers them
complete. I've been using daemontools and ucspi-tcp for years and they never
failed me. They are not updated, but they aren't buggy either. There are more
recent alternatives with more features; this site has a list of links:
http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/friends.html

Regards

Jorge Almeida


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