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Re:Why is Debian the way it is? by SoftTalker on Sunday October 08, 2023 @02:32PM (#37813139)
Debatable, but I was mainly reacting to "... rc.d / BSD style init scripts. It was awful. You had all these copy-pasted shell scripts with various gaps in functionality depending on who wrote them."

Simply not true in (modern) BSDs, well at least OpenBSD; I'm not familiar with the others.

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Re:Why is Debian the way it is? by dietrichepp on Sunday October 08, 2023 @11:14PM (#37816567)
Yeah, maybe it’s not inconsistent any more. But meanwhile, systemd has gotten really nice, even a good version of rc.d seems awful by comparison.

I had the same feeling when Apple came out with launchd in 2005. It felt like such a massive improvement over the existing state of things. Systemd also feels like a massive improvement.

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