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Gentoo is great because they give you step by step directions for systemd and openrc so you can see the differences in action. (If you choose to read both sets of directions)

What distro do you use with runnit?

Pretty much every industry works by tricking people into liking things.

Like the razors with four+ blades on them, people buy them cause the commercials say "more blades is better".

People wouldn't seek out extra blades if they weren't tricked into liking it. They are objectively worse than single blade razors.

Oof that stance on dependency resolution is a big no for me. As much as I hated building gnome from source it was amazing that Gentoo can do that in a single command.

Ah my mistake. I'm just generally curious about what distros use an alternative to systemd (not that I have any issues with systemd myself but I like variety).

So I googled what init system Slackware uses and read this page.

http://slackware.com/config/init.php (no https)

They mention several scripts on that page and that's why I thought they use scripts.

But I haven't actually used the Slackware yet. Suppose I should though since I'm interested.

I was reading about Slackware today and it seems their init system still uses system V and lots of scripts.

So I'd definitely recommend that OS to anyone curious about the old style of init system.

I tried both. They have the exact same questions.

However the one op posted respects the "I don't want systemd" request. And I personally prefer to get multiple answers.

But the mobile webdesign on ops posted link was not great. So it's a wash for me.

I've definitely made similar errors dual booting. I don't know what your budget or hardware is like but if you can fit a second hard drive in your computer it is very worthwhile for distro hopping.

The second hard drive will let you install whatever boot loader the USB installer wants to install without overwriting the bootloader on the first hard drive.

Modern grub is pretty magical and should detect both OSs either way.

But yeah that's why there are so many warnings in every Linux distro about installing grub. You do not want to mess with a currently working bootloader.

This is mostly because the bootloader needs to be in a very specific location on the hard drive and so you can't just install it anywhere. Which means you have to overwrite the old boot loader if you choose to install a new one.

I'm gonna try these out. The history search one is cool.

Plus I had no idea you could use args in an alias. I had to make a function in my .bashc the last time I needed args.

Edit: For anyone reading this in the future ECMA-119 is freely distributable and seems to conform to ISO 9660. ECMA also have versions of some of the specs referenced by ISO 9660. (ECMA-6, ECMA-35, ECMA-43)

Will do. I was gonna start by reading ISO 9660 and I found out it costs 200 dollars from standards.iso.org. Which is a shame because there's a bunch of other ISO standards referenced in 9660 which would cost even more money to read. I always heard people reference these standards but I had no idea they were so inaccessible to regular users. But I think I found some kind of annotated copy of the spec to read,

Thanks. I see the word boot is referenced 200 times on the related manual page. So I suspect a thorough read through of that page will help me.