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		jeltz 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian 13 “Trixie” Canonical did their own NIH init daemon called Upstart which failed due to the fundamental design and the implementation being plain bad. Redhat builds better software which is why their NIH gets more adoption.

curt15 4 months ago [–]

ChromeOS still uses upstart.

teddyh 4 months ago | [–]

Upstart came before systemd; much of the reason for systemd’s creation was fixing what was considered fundamental design mistakes in Upstart: <http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/systemd#:~:text=On%20Upsta...> (under the heading “On Upstart”).

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