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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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

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Ive been runing Debian 12 (kde) since bookworm was released and am loving it.

I have recently discovered Devuan which seems to be Debian without systemd - what is the benefit of removing this init system?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some distros used completely custom scripts for init and networking, so you had to learn “the distro” instead of “learn Linux.”

I never really noticed init scripts differing much between distros, but I also didn't play around with many. If the systemD scripts are the same across every system, then this is the first positive thing that I've heard about systemD, so thanks for that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Init scripts were different, I can confirm. And it was pretty bad if you were doing your job and had to change something on a Debian ~~massive~~ machine, then moved to a red hat one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah ok, most of my experience has been on debian or derivations in the past decade. It seems weird that the init scripts would need to be different on various systems, I thought they had been pretty well standardized, with variables in the /etc/default/ entries pointing to specific folders or startup options. Ah well.