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Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma (9to5linux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why would you want to. Systemd is the standard for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It does have disadvantages. The only real advantage of it is the completeness of system administration tools. Since they aren't that much needed on a phone and the performance of that class of devices is not groundbreaking, using another init system is a good idea. Though it depends on what the specific user wants of course. As long as there is a way to change the init system, it shouldn't be a problem

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Another init will be slower and will require much more time and resources though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't believe. Do you have any proof of that?

[–] xcjs 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Systemd was created to allow parallel initialization, which other init systems lacked. If you want proof that one processor core is slower than one + n, you don't need to compare init systems to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I've never heard of that. I only heard that other init systems usually have better performance. And well even if it's not the case, security is another massive concern

[–] xcjs 4 points 8 months ago

I mean, sysvinit was just a bunch of root-executed bash scripts. I'm not sure if systemd is really much worse.