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Interestingly, upstart was inspired by the shortcomings of launchd, and systemd was inspired by the shortcomings of upstart. So in a way systemd traces it's lin
by surajrmal 5y ago
Interestingly, upstart was inspired by the shortcomings of launchd, and systemd was inspired by the shortcomings of upstart. So in a way systemd traces it's lineage back to launchd.
- MichaelMoser123 5y agoWikipedia says that google chrome os/Chromium os are using upstart, that would make it the only widely adopted distibution that uses a non systemd service manager. Well Alpine linux is using OpenRC, but alpine is big with servers or as base image for k8s pods, not as a desktop distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC in a way this would disprove the assertion that everyone has to use systemd, because of dependency creep.