On: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

[quickthrower2]

I just thought, would Linux's "init" fall under this category with systemd. I am not from Linux background but I've been reading about this recently.

[JdeBP → quickthrower2]

You should read a lot more. The predecessor of systemd was not what you think, and there was not just one. The software is not even "init".

* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823871

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361168

[quickthrower2 → JdeBP]

Thank you

[Smithalicious → quickthrower2]

I think systemd is a bad thing but I also don't think pre-systemd init systems were a "good product".

[JdeBP → Smithalicious]

How many of them do you know well? Indeed, how many of them do you know?