What's The Point Of A Linux Init System

What's The Point Of A Linux Init System

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Every Linux system has an init but have you ever thought about what an init has to do, not what they various implementations do but broken down to the core what an init has to actually do. I hadn't either and the result was actually kind of surprising.

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==========Time Stamps==========
0:00 Introduction
1:01 Why PID 1
3:54 High Level Init Tasks
2:48 Important Notes About Init
5:12 Low Level Init Tasks
6:05 Anything Can Be Init
9:10 Is That The Answer Then

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