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Systemd: Hidden Gems for a Better Linux (tadeubento.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TCB13 to c/[email protected]

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After a few conversations with people on Lemmy and other places it became clear to me that most aren't aware of what it can do and how much more robust it is compared to the usual "jankiness" we're used to.

In this article I highlight less known features and give out a few practice examples on how to leverage Systemd to remove tons of redundant packages and processes.

And yes, Systemd does containers. :)

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[–] TCB13 9 points 1 year ago

The fact the original website is no longer available tells us a LOT about it. Maybe the server running it crashed because it didn't have proper service monitoring... or all the init jankiness was wasting so much resources the guy paying for the server run out of money :D

Now in all seriousness: I don't disagree with most points however, systemd also provides a TON of functionally that was never this easy and stable. Also if you consider the grand scheme of things Docker and whatnot are a bigger virus than systemd is or will ever be and the irony is that systemd does run containers with less overhead :).