3 ms·

Except that it doesn't, in practice, boot any faster at all. Most times I measure it, it's actually slower. And by the way, its predecessor, with insserv and

• Too 8y ago
  Not familiar with insserv or startpar but there is a difference between supports and supports. Most systems support everything in the sense that it's turing complete but it should be easy to do it without creating spaghetti also. Not saying systemd is the best or only system that can do this, it was just an example, but older ones usually make it very messy.
  • rleigh 8y ago
    It was supported for many years by the LSB standard init headers which were used to compute a dependency graph for parallel execution.