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Perhaps someone can explain why it was chosen as the replacement for SysV init, when all of the parent's comments/critiques of systemd were known in advance of
by e40 9y ago
Perhaps someone can explain why it was chosen as the replacement for SysV init, when all of the parent's comments/critiques of systemd were known in advance of it being pulled into major distros.
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- digi_owl 9y agoBundling. systemd as a package is more than just init. It is init, inetd, session manager (logind), udev, dns client, dhcp client, cron, su, and the list keeps growing. Basic thing is that first of all Poettering to it a toehold at Fedora (he works at Red Hat, so surprise surprise). Then he offered Gnome the code for supporting logind on a silver platter. End result is that to offer Gnome as the desktop you either have to patch it, shim it (ask Canonical how well that worked out) or adopt systemd. Effectively what is happening is that Fedora is becoming the de-facto standard for Linux. In part because it is effectively the testing distro for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and thus a large portion of userland devs (and a number of kernel devs) use it as their "dogfood".