Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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spicyusername · 10m ago

I remember when I first upgraded a system to a version using it. This was probably a RHEL 6 -> 7 update back in 2014 or so.

It made so many common things I had to do so as a sysadmin super straightforward.

dontlaugh · 12m ago

These were pretty much my feelings back when I envied launchd and was frustrated with some upstart behaviour. Systemd turned out better than both.

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Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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