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		cbmuser 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support SysVInit is abusing runlevel scripts for starting daemons which has always been a hack to be able to resolve dependencies between daemons. Learning Linux or Unix from scratch shouldn’t include using crude hacks.

its_magic 31 days ago [–]

I'm with you on this. SysVinit is better than systemd, but far from perfect. I don't enjoy tediously maintaining all of those symlinks, and prefer the BSD approach myself.

One project on my distro is a new init that will be much, much simpler than SysV, more like BSD and without all the years of cruft.

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