Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma - 9to5Linux
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postmarketOS Linux distro adopts the systemd init system to offer better compatibility with the latest KDE Plasma Mobile and GNOME desktops.
  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    885·
    3 years ago

    Reinventing the wheel is what they were doing without Systemd.
    On their announcement they cite various instances of having to write polyfills and ending up with basically ‘Systemd at home’ but buggier.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      743·
      3 years ago

      Reinventing the wheel is what they were doing without Systemd.

      Weird. We had those wheels before Lennart’s cancer showed up.

      • Virulent@reddthat.com
        151·
        3 years ago

        No, init systems sucked before. It was a bunch of poorly documented and poorly managed shell scripts

      • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
        24·
        3 years ago

        I honestly don’t know why you were downvoted so much. You could have get very different responses in a different forum.

      • dukatos@lemm.ee
        320·
        3 years ago

        Now, Microsoft employee. And everybody is OK with that. New generations suck.