4 Linux init systems that almost replaced systemd (and why they failed) (www.howtogeek.com)

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[-] hunger@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago

More than that: "its only an init daemon that does not even make use of Linux features". They all try to work on all posix systems while systemd is Linux-only and uses everything the kernel can offer to make things safer and more reliable.

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