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It will be interesting to see which takes off, a totally different style, or a reductionist fork? http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/

by 616c 11y ago

It will be interesting to see which takes off, a totally different style, or a reductionist fork? http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ I am a systemd user and Arch Linux fan (but definitely wanted to get to Gentoo to have the most choice), but I have been hoping to see news of uselessd pop-up again. I think the reaction to systemd is quite upsetting, for its tone and not its message about choice which is core to our support of open source values, but I welcome the alternative solutions and approaches and I am very curious to see what percolates to the top. Personally, as a budding Lisp geek, I wait for dmd. https://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/ https://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/ Although, and I know I have seen him post here before, the vitriolic systemd hate on one of his blog posts make me worry about reactionary development, just like this and other projects. I have heard a lot of good about SMF though, so I will need to follow all of them now.

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
I'm the uselessd author. It's dead, as I made clear at the top of the wiki index. There will be a successor, though I wasn't expecting SystemXVI to arrive. I might just rethink it to be a layer on top of SystemXVI RPC, I don't know yet.
- wicket 11y ago
  I'm curious to know what it is that you prefer about the design of System XVI over other alternative init/service management systems. In particular, compared to s6 [1], which has similar design goals to System XVI but appears to be much closer to completion. [1] http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/ http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/
- 616c 11y ago
  Well, I look like an idiot. I guess I should moved beyond the landing page (if that is not the wiki index page). Well, either way, I wish you luck. You Github testimonials at the bottom of the SystemXVIREADME were very entertaining. I am glad you have thick skin. You will need it, and I cannot wait to see real competitors in this space beyond SysVinit, runit, and of course the dreaded systemd.

by 616c 11y ago

vezzy-fnord 11y ago

I'm the uselessd author. It's dead, as I made clear at the top of the wiki index. There will be a successor, though I wasn't expecting SystemXVI to arrive. I might just rethink it to be a layer on top of SystemXVI RPC, I don't know yet.

wicket 11y ago
I'm curious to know what it is that you prefer about the design of System XVI over other alternative init/service management systems. In particular, compared to s6 [1], which has similar design goals to System XVI but appears to be much closer to completion. [1] http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/ http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/
616c 11y ago
Well, I look like an idiot. I guess I should moved beyond the landing page (if that is not the wiki index page). Well, either way, I wish you luck. You Github testimonials at the bottom of the SystemXVIREADME were very entertaining. I am glad you have thick skin. You will need it, and I cannot wait to see real competitors in this space beyond SysVinit, runit, and of course the dreaded systemd.