Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What distros *don't* use systemd ? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 07:02:46 +0100 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <6dtvdb-ptn.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bBWyW94F7vUPjg/PgeJGOAPY4fY/arvNeN+D8IDP1L9LGK2BRO X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:cqpSlnehS2eNGp4/lUw9i6VfW+Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12008 On 08/09/14 00:12, Bruce Sinclair wrote: > In article , Rich wrote: >> Bruce Sinclair wrote: >>> Hi >> >>> I vaguely followed a discussion or 2 on one of more of the linux groups >>> recently about systemd and its uses and pitfalls. I wasn't greatly concerned >>> at the time, but having chatted to someone that knows a bit more than me >> about >>> it, I am now. :) >> >>> Is there a list of distros anywhere that shows which use and which do not use >> >>> systemd ? >> >> Not that I know of. >> >>> I'm told gentoo is one that does not, but I'd love a complet-ish list if >>> anyone knows where there is such a thing ? >> >> 1) Slackware >> >> >> Also of note, while Slackware uses sysv init as the /sbin/init program, >> it utilizes BSD style /etc/rc.d/ files (which means /etc/rc.d/ is >> actually filled with a set of scripts that are executed instead of an >> opaque forrest of symlinks). So, you want to change how something's >> configured, you can simply edit the appropriate script in /etc/rc.d >> rather than figure out what magic symlink to insert where to get thing >> X to actually occur. > > That sounds attractive. Never did see the point of having symlinks. :) > > Thanks > SuSE did something not dissimilar around 7.2 Symlinks have the advantage they are very easy to "knock on and off" with trivial scripts. But I guess as long as you have inssrv/service/update-rc.d or equivalent it doesn;t matter too much.