On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:28:28PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
> >>Running Slackware it doesn't seem to have anything to tell me what it 
> >>loads up when the machine is turned on.
> >
> >Nobody is saying whether Slackware uses the SysV init mechanism.
> >Since SysV is traditional, and Slackware is a traditional release,
> >let's assume it does. (-:  I don't know; I don't use Slack.
> 
> My memory (and i haven't used Slack since the Clinton Administration) is 
> that Slackware actually uses BSD init.

It uses standard Linux sysvinit, it just sets it up to behave like a BSD
init as much as possible.

-- 
"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
        -- Aristotle

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