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On 05/04/2020 12:14, Michael Everitt wrote:
One reason I asked is that I am using MX Linux 19. This is obviously a bit odd, since it has systemd installed but not enabled, so it is meanwhile using sysVinit. I have not checked, but I am guessing that you can enable systemd on it if you wish. I have not yet checked that.On 05/04/20 12:03, Neil wrote:I have been told that systemd is now the way to go, and that soon all Linux distros will be using it. Apparently the previous system was sysvinit, or is that wrong? What is the consensus of opinion about this on this LUG list please? NeilSystemDestruct! Don't do it ... But seriously, you have barely any choice. Init systems do boil down to systemd, systemd and systemd, and openrc with/out sysvinit and friends. There is a new player on the market with s6-linux-init born out of the excellent skalibs by a guy i know in France. Otherwise there are a few other minorities like runit, and others I can't remember. But 98% of the distro's these days are using systemd out-of-the-box, so it's only crazies like me running Gentoo .. or if you're similarly daft, my other friend's distro "Adelie" which is new and binary-based .. and a few other oddballs .. left on OpenRC or else :( Such is the fate of Linux these days, dictated by Google, Amazon and Redhat..... (all large Inc's you will notice...)*. . . . * Aside, I do know Sony Interactive Entertainment do a lot of indirect 'sponsorship' of Gentoo Linux, so it's not -all- bad ...
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