> everything that came before it ... sysinit Your commentary is undermined by the fact that you do not have the experience with the things that did come before

> everything that came before it ... sysinit Your commentary is undermined by the fact that you do not have the experience with the things that did come before it to know that you are talking about the wrong thing. So you cannot be expressing a fully informed opinion. The assumption that only systemd and van Smoorenburg init exist is a fallacy that was called out by the "Uselessd Guy" several years ago. * https://web.archive.org/web/20190306213420/http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190306213420/http://uselessd.d... The thing that came immediately before systemd, on operating systems like Ubuntu and Fedora, was upstart. It was not van Smoorenburg init. And that was not systemd's only antecedent. On real Unices there were the Service Access Facility on AT&T System 5 Unix (replacing the running of services through inittab years before Linux even existed), Solaris' SMF, and the AIX SRC. On Linux operating systems there were all of the tools in the daemontools family except for the nosh toolset (which post-dates systemd), InitNG, OpenRC, and a whole bunch of others. * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html * https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/ https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/