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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.