Post #1495275
2026-03-21 18:17 UTC
@lkundrak
From the point of view of many lowly users, myself included, systemd is that weird thing that replaced our old init systems in mainstream distros :)
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@lkundrak@metalhead.club 2026-03-21 19:13
@ozzelot in broader sense, systemd is a collection of core libraries & daemons. close enough to a classic unix/bsd tree with some bits missing. service management is only one of the components. adds a handful of really clever tricks, alone more elegant and powerful than the old system. calling it "init" is sounds somewhat inappropriate to me nowadays that the system is dynamic to the point everything in the system down to the hardware devices can come and go -- initialization not really separate from system run.