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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @07:11PM (#46789132)
"for what? to save a second of boot time"

Doubtful the motivation was /etc/rc being too slow

daemontools, runit, s6 solve that problem

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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by jacquesm on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @10:20PM (#46790663)
The only parties that really cared about boot time were the big hosting providers and container schleppers. For desktop linux it never mattered as much.
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