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chimeracoder on Sept 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: From Linux to OSX - 1 Year Later

> On Linux, there are a thousand ways to launch daemons.

Depends on your distro, really - Arch keep things fairly centralized and simple.

I never really got the hang of Ubuntu, though, by comparison.

donniezazen on Sept 10, 2012 [–]

I really liked BSD style rc.d and now Arch and other distros are moving to systemd but Ubuntu won't ship it in 12.10.

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