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by baileycoffee 1411 days ago
BSD-style init vs Sys V-style init -> upstart -> systemd
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Systemd is 12 years old, wtf
The transition is still a mess and probably ever be on some distros.
BSD-style init is over 40 years old with minimal user facing changes.
Is it a good thing though? init.d was old and it sucked. I'm glad systemd came to replace it, and more