Add slides about classical init, systemd history

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@@ -9,4 +9,28 @@ system processes that are started include for example FS mounts, network setting
 system services are long-running processes such as daemons, e.g. SSH, database or web servers, session managers, udev ...
 
 orphans: Process whose parent has finished somehow, gets adopted by init system
--> when a process terminates its parent must call wait() to get its exit() code, if there is no init system adopting orphans the process would become a zombie
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+-> when a process terminates its parent must call wait() to get its exit() code, if there is no init system adopting orphans the process would become a zombie
+### 4
+Before systemd there were simple init systems that just did the tasks listed on the previous slide.
+Init scripts -> increased greatly in complexity over time, look at incomprehensible skeleton for Debian service init scripts
+Runlevels -> things such as single-user mode, full multiuser mode, reboot, halt
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+Init will run all the scripts, but it will not do much more than print information on success/failure of started scripts
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+Init scripts run strictly sequential
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+Init is unaware of inter-service dependencies, expressed through prefixing scripts with numbers etc.
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+Init will not watch processes after system is booted -> crashing daemons will not automatically restart
+### 5
+### 6
+How systemd came to be
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+Considering the lack of process monitoring, problematic things about init scripts -> legacy init systems have drawbacks
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+Apple had already built launchd, a more featured init system that monitored running processes, could automatically restart them and allowed for certain advanced features -> however it is awful to use and wrap your head around
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+Lennart Poettering of Pulseaudio fame and Kay Sievers decided to implement a new init system to address these problems, while taking certain clues from Apple's design
+### 7
+Systemd's design goals
+### 8