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Re:Operating Systems Without Systemd by catblast on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:31PM (#23056670)
No that’s a SysVism.
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Re:Operating Systems Without Systemd by JdeBP on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:34AM (#23057075)
... that went away in parts of the System 5 world a year before Linux even existed.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/run-levels-are-history.html

getty was obsolete in the System 5 world two years earlier than that, in 1988.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html

Whilst not peculiar to Linux, it after all having been created for Minix, the van Smoorenburg init+rc system did resurrect some things that were already years gone in the System 5 world. Calling them "sysv" has always been somewhat of a misnomer. They are Linux/Minux clones of old System 5 mechanisms that were out of date at the time.

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