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I think this is really cool, but calling it a "systemd replacement" feels like click bait to me. Systemd manages a huge number of things, and this doesn't even
by spudlyo 7y ago
I think this is really cool, but calling it a "systemd replacement" feels like click bait to me.
Systemd manages a huge number of things, and this doesn't even reap zombies, which all good init programs do. It doesn't support run levels, it doesn't support "resapwn" (for getty processes) -- hell feature-wise this isn't even a legit replacement for SysV init.
Having said that, I think this is a neat idea, and it'd be cool to have an emacs server process as a true pid 1 init, and when you SSH or go to the virtual terminals you'd get an "emacsclient".
- microtherion 7y agoI was just going to say that "lightweight" and "systemd replacement" seem rather contradictory goals.
- kick 7y agoIt's called a joke, guys. The README is literally full of them.
- sirn 7y ago>The README is literally full of them. Looking at the author's .emacs[1], I'm quite sure the README is legitimate ;-) [1]: https://github.com/a-schaefers/dot-emacs/blob/master/.emacs https://github.com/a-schaefers/dot-emacs/blob/master/.emacs
- kick 7y agoSomething can be filled with jokes and yet legitimate!
- hkt 7y agoI was fooled until I saw "Emacs lisp"
- teknopaul 7y agoSaying that something is not a systemd replacement because it does not do x feature that systemd does misses the point that systemd does too much. /sbin/init can be simple, and written in any language, and when it is, its often better than systemd because of that. If software supports start but not stop or restart or enable disable as both systemV and systemd do, its still a fully functional systemd replacement if your context does not need those features
- ailideex 7y ago> Saying that something is not a systemd replacement because it does not do x feature that systemd does misses the point that systemd does too much. /sbin/init can be simple, and written in any language, and when it is, its often better than systemd because of that. If someone tells me something is a systemd replacement I don't take it as them telling me it is an init system. If it is an init system unrelated to systemd don't call it a systemd replacement.
- diffeomorphism 7y agoAre you talking about systemd the project or systemd the init? I have heard lots of complaints about journald or this and that other project under the umbrella, but you are the first person I hear complain about the init part.
- majewsky 7y agoBy that logic, a newspaper can be sold as a "macOS replacement" if the intended target audience only uses their Mac to read the news.