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Best Linux Distros Without systemd in 2026
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (1709+ words) systemd runs the show on most Linux distributions you’ll bump into today. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch all default to it. Depending on who you ask, that’s either systemd solving real problems that the old init systems never fixed,…...
FreeBSD working on new service manager
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (381+ words) The BSD news will continue until morale improves. I missed this two months ago, but Baptiste Daroussin, creator of pkg and poudriere, is working on a service manager for FreeBSD called rcd. rcd(8) is a service manager daemon called by…...
systemd vs BusyBox init: Which Init System Fits Your Device?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (661+ words) BusyBox init lives inside the BusyBox multi-call binary you almost certainly already ship. It reads /etc/inittab at startup; entries take the form:::, with the action one of sysinit, wait, once, respawn, askfirst, restart, ctrlaltdel or shutdown. The runlevel field…...