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rodgerd on Oct 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base

> Sysvinit is basically Windows XP.

Honestly that's unfair to XP/Windows Server 2003 which had much better supervisor capability than sysvinit provides.

togusa on Oct 9, 2015 [–]

To be fair NT4 had a better service management story in 1996.

JdeBP on Oct 12, 2015 | [–]

And it would be interesting to see how much of that it took from VMS.

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