[exploderate]

Wow, I need to get some of that "binary code". Sounds dangerous, probably has "pointers" and other sharp things?

I'm happy the gigantic ball of ill-maintained shell scripts from the last century is gone from my systems.

[ori_b]

Some people seem to think that systemd is the only alternative to the sysv init mess. This is a false dichotomy.

Sv, smf, s6, openrc, runit, dinit, epoch, BSD, ...

[jimmaswell]

I never had any horse in systemd/init.d and wasn't too familiar with the issue until I watched this presentation. systemd seems reasonable enough after considering it.

https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo

[mmcgaha]

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=sysvinit

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=systemd

[rollcat]

Who are the remaining users of sysvinit?

Alpine & Gentoo are on OpenRC, Void is on runit, the BSDs have always had their own init, everything else I can think of is either on systemd, or hardly significant.

I mean, sysvinit was horrible, and systemd is horrible in very different ways, just wondering who and why is holding on.

[gunapologist99]

Point and score.