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[–] ThisIsMyRealName ago 

an init system (that was working)

You set a low bar.

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[–] privacy_first 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If you definition of "working" includes being NSA ready, with cancer like behaviour and a force down the troath attitude...

well, yes, previous init systems where not up to modern standard

P.S. systemd also took "ownership" of the simple program su....

a machine with systemd is not your machine, it is somebody else machine. Use devuan

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[–] Wowbagger ago 

Okay, so it didn't support some features like Wake on LAN and you needed to write your scripts from a blasted heath while covered in pig's blood but Init DID work for the most part. I'm not particularly upset that it's replaced so much as that it's replaced with something that flies in the face of UNIX design philosophy.