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many of the things it replaced were not "perfectly functional" in many respects.
by starkruzr 2y ago
many of the things it replaced were not "perfectly functional" in many respects.
- kingspact 2y agoThey most certainly were. Unix has been fine being the backbone of the Internet since day one without systemd.
- constantcrying 2y agoWhat system that systemd replaced was so bad that it needed to be replaced by the init system. I am not against new software, but if using a new piece of software, requires replacing dozens of other system components, then something is going very wrong. The thought process behind people at Redhat who think "We need a new system logger, you know the init system is the perfect place to develop that" is just inexplicable to me.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 2y agoI believe the only other systemd components required for systemds service manager are journalctl and udev. for relatively obvious reasons