[Discuss] systemd Alternatives

Ben Kallus benjamin.p.kallus.gr at dartmouth.edu
Sun Jan 18 11:48:26 EST 2026


Patching sshd is unfortunately way more common than you'd expect. The
Debian openssh-server package applies 29 patches to sshd, of which
only one is systemd-related.

That said, not every distribution that uses systemd does this. For
example, even though Arch uses systemd, it doesn't apply the
systemd-socket-activation patch that Debian does.

-Ben


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