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Author: tito
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New-Topics: Re: [DNG] PCLinuxOS, a SysV rpm distro
Subject: Re: [DNG] What is an init system?
On Fri, 17 May 2024 13:47:14 +0100
Peter Duffy <peter@???> wrote:

> I did have a look at PClinuxOS (I've not tried installing/running it as
> yet). I got the impression that the packaging was a kind of hybrid
> between deb and rpm. From the wiki page:
>
> "PCLinuxOS uses APT-RPM, based on APT (Debian), a package management
> system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with
> Synaptic Package Manager, a GUI to APT, to add, remove or update
> packages."


Yes they use some kind of apt but with rpm packages,
also synaptic package manager worked, plus they do have
all daemons/servers packages with init scripts already forked.

> On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 13:57 +0200, tito via Dng wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is PClinuxOS https://www.pclinuxos.com/
> >
> > PCLinuxOS does not use systemd. Instead, it uses SysV init and “will
> > continue to do so for the foreseeable future“.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Tito
> >
> > > Interesting.
> > >
> > > Thanks for noting that.
> > >
> >
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