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 <h1>Why I dislike systemd</h1>
 
+<p><em>(Published 2015-06-14)</em></p>
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 As a Linux sysadmin in the 2010s, it's hard not to have an opinion on
 systemd. But what I find baffling about it is how divisive it is;
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ another command to reattach output to the terminal. Where under Unix
 one might say
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-<pre><code>ls &gt;xx</pre></code>
+<pre><code>ls &gt;xx</code></pre>
 
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 to get a listing of the names of one’s files in xx, on Multics the
@@ -163,7 +165,10 @@ developers decided that the best way to tackle this problem was to
 invent a new configuration language which would enable init to perform
 more complex and customisable tasks, along with a way of allowing
 vendors to drop in their own service startup routines and have them run
-automatically at boot.
+automatically at boot. [Ed: I was actually slightly mistaken, and this
+came from SunOS. See <a
+href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717758">this clarification
+</a> from someone who's been alive longer than I have.]
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