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I have seen so many times that systemd is insecure, bloated, etc. So i wonder ¿does it worth to switch to another init system?

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It used to be that everything in Linux was a file, ideally a text file

Yes? The entire Systemd configuration is done with files. With a very well defined structure called units that you can use to configure, boot, service startup, networking, containers, mount stuff, open sockets.... that's exactly the point Systemd provides a cohesive configuration file format for a system.

[-] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but I've interacted with it a lot and most of my interaction is commands sent through one of their programs. Versus scripts like init.d whose contents I can easily inspect and modify. Init scripts aren't config files, they're directly executable code.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Init scripts aren’t config files, they’re directly executable code.

Yes and that's exactly the problem.

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