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Re:Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate by geofft on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:51PM (#14174387)
My experience with sysvinit is that it definitely takes well over ten seconds to boot Linux and start all services, especially if you've been putting "sleep 60" into certain scripts to make boot ordering reliable.

Again, I'm comparing systemd to pre-systemd Linux distros (including Devuan, which explicitly continues that tradition), not to systems broadly comparable to systemd. If Devuan had a different fancy init system or service manager (which could just be bundling runit configuration for everything the OS ships with) instead of an old-school init system + old-school init scripts, this would be a very different comparison.

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Re:Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate by petre on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:01AM (#14176604)
Why would you sleep 60 when you have runlevels and startup order?
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Re:Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate by geofft on Sunday April 23, 2017 @11:14PM (#14181698)
Startup order (again, with traditional runlevels and nothing like insserv) isn't enough to express "Once networking is up, start this job" or "Once this service is ready to accept connections, start this other servie".
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