On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:24 AM altoid via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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> Hello:
>
> On 25 Jun 2024 at 13:19, Peter Duffy wrote:
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> > "... a fundamental core function of the operating system."
>
> And what did you expect?
> A reasonable answer / explanation?
>
> systemd is *not* optional because it was *not* designed to be a
> solution to *anything*, much less the "boots faster" crap 0/1980.
>

I have Devuan installed on a T480 Thinkpad and Devuan boots faster
than the previous Kubuntu or Kde Neon that was on this machine.

I would really like to know the true purpose of systemd. Does it help
the start up of virtual machines?