Nowadays there is quite some debate and controversy over whether Linux distributions should use systemd
, GNU Shepherd etc. But all these systems are relatively new - for these examples dating back to 2010 and 2003 respectively.
Since the whole point of the term "GNU/Linux" is that GNU was (at that time) a complete operating system without a kernel, what init system was used in early distributions, for example in the 90s? It seems that init
(or equivalent) is a pretty fundamental thing to have in any UNIX-based system. Also, what was wrong with the systems used at that time that led to the creation of systemd
et al?
sysvinit
was introduced as late as 2008? – Jonathon Reinhart Nov 16 '18 at 22:03systemd
is hardly "retro" so design questions about it is a question for a different stack exchange (or none, it has been answered and debated ad nauseam elsewhere) – pipe Nov 17 '18 at 10:13systemd
, it's about other init systems which were used beforesystemd
existed – Kidburla Nov 17 '18 at 18:58sysvinit
was so old, as the earliest references I could find to it were from 2008, but I have now been proven wrong... – Kidburla Nov 17 '18 at 19:00