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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:04:07 -0700
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:25:18 -0400
Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

> And systemd seems to be to be a good thing. It sure minimizes boot
> times.

Does anybody really care about boot times anymore? *nix uptimes can
generally be measured in months or years, and off an SSD even my pokey
little Eee 904 (running Devuan with sysvinit) goes from zero to display
manager in less than a minute.