I'm a big supporter of systemd, but > Until systemd, there wasn’t anything else that would really do the trick (djbware and stuff derived from djbware does no

I'm a big supporter of systemd, but > Until systemd, there wasn’t anything else that would really do the trick (djbware and stuff derived from djbware does not count, as it’s lacking too much stuff that even various hacked together rc implementations on top of sysvinit added eventually) There was Canonical's upstart, used in Ubuntu. systemd was created to address upstart's shortcomings