Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Thu, 29 May 2025 17:54:15 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 5/29/25 15:43, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Thu, 29 May 2025 08:58:11 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
 

On 5/28/25 21:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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So what were the problems with systemd, exactly?

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Instability.

 
When Debian Unstable adopted it, I didn’t even notice the transition.
That’s how stable it was.
 
What kind of instability did you run into?

 
Simply said "Failure pf Boot".  I had to re-install repeatedly.
About 04/2016 i found that PCLinuxOS had determined how
to deal with UEFI and went away from Mageia.
 
PCLinuxOS uses SysV for init.

Maybe the two had nothing to do with each other.

There were additional options you could have tried. For example, did you
know you can tell the kernel to boot straight into a shell, and nothing
more, with something as simple as

    init=/bin/bash

and completely bypass the entire normal userland init system, just to see
if that works.