Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:40:57 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

My beef was mainly that it enforced the need for EVERY SINGLE DAEMON to
have its config file rewritten in a more complex form.

systemd had extensive backward compatibility with sysvinit scripts right
from the beginning. Otherwise nobody would have bothered with a transition
that would have been more painful than it needed to be.

This could be one of the reasons that systemd became so popular, because
it did a better job of sysvinit compatibility than some of the other
service-management alternatives.

And this in spite of the fact that systemd unit files are usually a model
of simplicity and clarity, compared to the usual boilerplate-ridden
sysvinit scripts.