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[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you dig deeper into systemd, it's not all that far off the Unix philosophy either. Some people seem to think the entirety of systemd runs as PID1, but it really only spawns and tracks processes. Most systemd components are separate processes that focus on their own thing, like journald and log management. It's kinda nice that they all work very similarly, it makes for a nice clean integrated experience.

Because it all lives in one repo doesn't mean it makes one big fat binary that runs as PID1 and does everything.

[-] optissima@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is what turned me around: investigating and realizing that it is following the unix philosophy, it's just under the hood (under the other hood inside the bigger under the hood).

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