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Does Hurd use systemd?

Also, how's the performance? The last time I tried Hurd the performance was atrocious.




No, and systemd would not add compelling features to the Hurd, since the Hurd already provides most of the advertised advantages of systemd, but cleanly integrated into the system — and has been doing so for decades.

Some of the reasons for that are discussed in this article: http://www.draketo.de/light/english/free-software/some-techn...

If you want performance from the Hurd, run it in a qemu VM so it profits from the caching algorithms of the Linux host. Then performance is actually pretty good — and you still gain most of the advantages of using the Hurd as OS.


No, it has an initialisation server (helpfully called init): https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-server#init

I'm curious to know what made you wonder whether it did, and whether you would consider that a positive or a negative (and why).


No, it has an startup server (helpfully called startup), since 2015: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/NEWS#n86


I stand corrected. Apparently things have changed since I last used it. Apologies to all.




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