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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by ori_b on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:46AM (#23246223)
> Honest question, is your opinion that we should have been stuck with something like SysVinit just so it's more convenient for the BSDs,

BSD init is far better than Sysv. Adopting it would have been a step forward.

There are also other init systems that are better designed, like openrc or runit.

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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by AsyncAwait on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:10AM (#23246947)
> There are also other init systems that are better designed, like openrc or runit.

OpenRC is practically speaking a thin wrapper around SysVinit, not much of an upgrade if you ask me.

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