Well it is and it does: it defers to tightly-coupled rendering *engines*. But the UI & event loop is all KO.
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As far as the Kobo init system goes: nope, it's basically back to System V: one rcS to rule them all

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Which, quite frankly, despite the limitations, is mildly refreshing after the depgraph hellscape that is upstart on the Kindle

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If you want systemd, get a reMarkable

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