The reason why sysvinit runs on FreeBSD and HURD kernels is that those kernels have implemented the Linux procfs file system. https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/p

The reason why sysvinit runs on FreeBSD and HURD kernels is that those kernels have implemented the Linux procfs file system. https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/posts/on-portability-of-init-systems/ https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/posts/on-portability-of-init... Besides, none of these are release architectures, so why should their limitations restrict what features >99.9% of Debian users have available?