The Story Behind "init" and "systemd": Why "init" Needed to be Replaced with "systemd" in Linux | Linux Today

The Story Behind “init” and “systemd”: Why “init” Needed to be Replaced with “systemd” in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Sep 3, 2014

The init daemon is going to be replaced with daemon systemd on some of the Linux Distributions, while a lot of them have already implemented it. This is/will be creating a huge gap between traditional Unix/Linux Guard and New Linux Guard – programmers and System Admins.

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Ravi Saive

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