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		Flowdalic on June 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-... The kernel usually just needs to know which binary to execute as init, which is often provided as kernel command line argument by the bootloader.

djbusby on June 27, 2023 [–]

I use syslinux, which is manually updated, no init is passed in.

In the Gentoo kernel make menuconfig there are options for Systemd vs OpenRC - not entirely sure what they do.

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