systemd cat and GNU cat hugging a Linux cat.
systemd is great
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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In terms of Linux, either Devuan sysvinit, Void, or Alpine.
I am also a fan of BSD.
I misread and wondered when did systemd release cat as in the software not the animal.
GNU Guix System, using GNU Shepherd as init. It does its job quite well.
How is Guix? I run NixOS right now, and I didn't find Guix until like right after I invested all the time and effort to learn Nix. I kind of want to switch, but I also don't really want to abandon Nix right after I learned it.
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OpenBSD
what is that little pixel cat at the top? It also appears on https://katia.ripe.net/ is it referencing something?
It might be this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
- A port toΒ JavaScriptΒ named Oneko.js is used on various personal websites. [7]
That's awesome; I knew I'd seen it around!
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Offtopic, but... Another ANeko user :D
There are few system manager (single project or a mix of components) that use linux features efficiently and none have dev resource remotely comparable to systemd. That's why in practice systemd is the best system layer implementation on gnu/linux. Android and chromeos userland (upstart derived) are not exactly (freedesktop) gnu/linux.
EDIT: the post ask which OS though. Including userland I like android a lot, but I would say illumos distros (OI currently). illumos has a system management similar to systemd (contracts in place of cgroups for example). Actually systemd was heavily inspired by SMF too.
Kolibri, which only needs a handful of RAM and disk space
cat propaganda
macOS. I find it to be the least inconvenient for most of my needs.
Same here. Got a MacBook from work, it launches a browser, it's almost all I need.
Add android to the mix.
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OS400 (IBM i)
OS/2
Slackware linux
MX Linux of course
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It's either Slackware (Linux, no systemd), OpenBSD or NetBSD.
True story: I install a Red Hat server with a disk shelf with about 12 SAS disk in it. Red Hat has systemd. Everything works fine for a month.
One (1) disk out of the 12 fails. No biggie. Shutdown the server cleanly. Replace disk. Flip power back on. Rebuild disk config. Simple, right?
Wrong. You see, systemd is unhappy. It detects a new disk. It has lost a previous disk. And so, it refuses to boot. Period.
Yes, there are ways out of this. But that was the day I decided systemd was the down of the devil.
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MacOS. I use Linux for servers, Mac for daily driver. Windows for zilch, only at my job because I have to.
launchd is pretty similar to systemd.
True.
OPNSense.
Now that Windows qualifies under the prompt, not that I'd pick it but it's just funny that it is.
Alpine
Probably PalmOS.