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		teacup50 on July 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BSD vs. Linux (2005) If that's your definition, then FreeBSD and Solaris solved this without paying the systemd tax, via ZFS-based boot environments. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=beadm&sektion=&man... NeXt->Apple also avoided anything like systemd via a configuration system that supported inheritance across search domains (User, Local, Network, System): https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

mjg59 on July 5, 2016 [–]

Oh, there's certainly multiple ways to do this. My point is purely that this isn't an inherent Linux/*BSD thing - there are modern Linux distributions that have precisely this property.

frabbit on July 5, 2016 | [–]

And isn't it actually part of the same effort (RH Stateless Linux) which spawned systemd and ostree ?

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