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I have the opposite opinion. Init scripts (upstart!) were reliable, transparent, consistent and manageable.

Systemd is none of those things.

Having said that, I have to additionally admit that init scripts had to go at a certain point. It's hard to imagine a modern scripts-based PID1. Times have changed.



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