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Systems were simpler then and demands were lower. So what if the system boots sequentially and takes two days to boot up. But try to make it parallel and faster
by Yizahi 9mo ago
Systems were simpler then and demands were lower. So what if the system boots sequentially and takes two days to boot up. But try to make it parallel and faster, and the whole house of scripts falls down or becomes illegible, undiscoverable and completely unmaintainable mess.
- account42 9mo agoMy system is still simple and I still don't have whatever requirements SystemD is needed for. OpenRC does support parallel startup but for a desktop it's already fast enough without it - my whole Linux bootup sequence is faster than BIOS POST.
- Yizahi 9mo agoI wasn't talking about your system, I was talking about many systems everywhere. Just as an example, one of them may be powering your home internet and fast and reliable systemd boot is one of the reasons why multiple minutes had been saved on a hardware power cycle and service downtime. Regardless of my opinion, this choice has been done by much more knowledgeable people and results are clear. Personally, I would pick a systemd distro any time over script init based.