Parrot Security OS Devs Mock systemd: It's an Immature Init System for GNU/Linux | Linux Today

Parrot Security OS Devs Mock systemd: It’s an Immature Init System for GNU/Linux

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Marius Nestor
Jun 15, 2017

As you are aware, Devuan GNU/Linux is a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, but without using systemd as the default init system. Many popular Linux-based operating system adopted systemd since its initial launch seven years ago, but it looks like there are others out there that still hate the init system and what it become. When we wrote our story about Parrot Security OS considering ditching its Debian base for Devuan’s, there wasn’t any official announcement or anything like that, but only a simple tweet. Now, the developers of the penetration testing distro have published a more in-depth story where they mostly mock systemd, with memes.

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Marius Nestor

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