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A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)
- felixfurtak 11y agoI was hoping for a little more on Systemd
- Sanddancer 11y agoSystemd's a dead horse, no use flogging it any more. This article seems much more concerned about the init systems that /aren't/ discussed, but really should be.
- logingone 11y agoCould you elaborate? I know it's controversial and dispute-ridden, but it seems to still be progressing, looking on from afar as someone who has nothing to do with these things.
- scintill76 11y agoI think "dead horse" just meant "discussed and debated to death already", not that the project itself is stagnant or ill-fated.
- girvo 11y agoSomewhat related, but I recently started using systemd, and I really like it. The init systems discussed in this article are fascinating though, it'd be really interesting to see what would've changed should one of them "won the war", so to speak.
- feld 11y agoAuthor did not cover DragonflyBSD's svc(8) which nobody seems to know about. It's not a full blown init system, but something you would use like daemontools. I could see this turned into an init system with significant benefits by doing so. https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=svc§ion=8 https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=svc§ion...
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoFuck, I forgot about that one. Yeah, the interface is daemontools-like, but its primary differentiation is the use of jails.
- JdeBP 11y agoThe author of https://github.com/ServiceManager/ServiceManager https://github.com/ServiceManager/ServiceManager states that you already know about it. Yes, it's far too early to put it into a history. (-:
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- rascul 11y agoMissing runit http://smarden.org/runit/ http://smarden.org/runit/
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoNot missing. runit is a daemontools derivative and so fits under that bill.