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Basically, systemd is a big binary that manages the system. That used to be many discrete programs and shell scripts and files. There is a lot of philosophy t
by ddingus 5y ago
Basically, systemd is a big binary that manages the system.
That used to be many discrete programs and shell scripts and files.
There is a lot of philosophy to consider from there.
- fsh 5y agoOn my laptop, systemd consists of 60 different small binaries. Looks pretty UNIXy to me (maybe even too much so).
- ddingus 5y agoThat is what I get for using mobile in the evening. I really should have expanded on that post, and at a minimum removed "discrete programs" from it, the distinction being the behavior in shell scripts and such and sequential behavior at boot time.