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by pjmlp 977 days ago
First of all Linux distributions are the laggard, commercial UNIX systems have moved away from init before systemd was an idea.

Secondly, Lennart Poettering became a Microsoft employee only recently, after all the systemd drama took place.
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blueflow 977 days ago
launchd does none of the whacky bootloader stuff that systemd does.

And Poettering didn't stop working on systemd, so you can estimate that Microsoft is not having a negative attitude towards his previous work.

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pjmlp 977 days ago
launchd is one among many.

systemd adoption across Linux distributions and the features everyone complains about, predates his hiring process by several years.

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blueflow 977 days ago
Which other "init system" is mucking with the bootloader and partition table like systemd does? How is that even in-scrope for an init system?
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pjmlp 977 days ago
Solaris SMF for example,

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36801/svcrun-123....

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-2731/ggnke.htm...

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