I am a Linux user, but I don’t really know how most things work, even after years of casual use on my Main, I just started getting into Devuan and wondered then, what exacly does systemd do that most distros have it? What even is init freedom? And why should I care?
Linux is based on unix, which was an operating system designed to run on computers like the PDP-11 of the 1970s.
The problem is that computers have changed a lot, and Richie and Thompson couldn’t perfectly forecast all those changes. Most notably, it predates the internet.
Anyways, computers changed and so systemd was invented to copy MacOS Tiger’s launchd service model. Here’s the only video you need to watch on the subject
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systemd was invented because Upstart fell under Canonical’s CLA