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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure by Freaky on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:45AM (#11870146)
> Unfortunately FreeBSD's init system seems at first glance to be even more primitive than Linux's old sysV-init.

You're better off looking at the rc system[1]. It leaves a lot to be desired, but it's much better than the sysV approach.

There are ongoing efforts to modernise things a bit. The 4Q 2015 report[2] mentions a few.

I like the look of nosh, personally.

1: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/index.h... 2: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-Fe...

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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure by api on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:29PM (#11870435)
A clean OS with clean simple package management and a modernized init system that isn't a tower of babel would really have me sold.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure by sigusr1 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:49PM (#11872266)
Void linux is great.
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