• Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I used Linux (and some Unix) before systemd was a thing and init scripts are jank. So much boilerplate and that was before things like proper isolation existed and other more modern features.

    I don’t understand why anyone would want that back.

    A replacement of systemd with something else would be fine, but please no more init scripts and pointless run levels.

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      1 year ago

      Upstart was fine. It does the parallel init thing without taking over the whole OS.

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        I almost forgot it existed. It was a slight improvement, but with a whole bunch of new problems (most notable race conditions which were never fixed) and it was made obsolete by systemd.

        It was a good evolutionary step only used by Ubuntu iirc. It was better at that time than the previous init system, but not more than that and it never found wide adaption.

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      Yeah when systemd came out it was over a decade since I touched an init script. So the only difference to me was my computer booted up faster.