Post #1495276
2026-03-21 19:13 UTC
@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.
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@lkundrak@metalhead.club 2026-03-21 19:14
@ozzelot i must say, that through the magic of adhd i unfortunately read through the sources of init systems from v4 through pwb, sysv and bsd. i'm happy to bore you to death with useless trivia over a beer.
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@innocentzero@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 00:17
@lkundrak @ozzelot I loved Benno Rice's talk on 'The Tragedy of Systemd' and the notion of a system layer between kernel and application. I think that fits systemd best.