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Re:Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support by bjourne on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:25AM (#46873069)
The first version of UNIX was released in 1971 and the first version of Windows NT in 1993. So UNIX is only about 60% older than NT. Both OSes have "stood the test of time", though one passed it with a dominant market share, whereas the other didn't. And systemd is heavily inspired by NT.

Time flies fast, faster than recycled arguments. :)

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Re:Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support by its_magic on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:05PM (#46874638)
I'm confused as to which OS is the one that passed the other with dominant market share. Last I checked, Linux is everywhere, and Windows just keeps getting worse with every iteration.

I'm not sure I'd be smugly pronouncing anything about the superiority of Windows if I were a Microsoft guy today.

It's not surprising that systemd was heavily inspired by NT. That's exactly what Poettering was paid to create, by his employer Microsoft. (Oh, sorry--RedHat, and then "later" Microsoft.)

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Re:Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support by bjourne on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:00PM (#46877933)
Linux is "everywhere" only if you count Android, which is not very Unix-like.
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