3 ms·
"I hope Alpine ends up with something similar!" Direct quote from the website. Eh, no. There is already a short list of viable non-systemd candidates. We.. we
by A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
"I hope Alpine ends up with something similar!"
Direct quote from the website.
Eh, no. There is already a short list of viable non-systemd candidates. We.. well.. I don't need less. It already feels like I am transgressing some law by typing this on PopOS.
- darthrupert 5y agoTo each their own, but I won't touch Alpine (outside of docker use) until they get systemd or something fairly similar.
- lixtra 5y agoThe same design goals that make them a good docker distribution may have made them to stay away from systemd. Meanwhile others claim that systemd makes docker redundant anyway[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473581
- efiecho 5y ago> To each their own, but I won't touch Alpine (outside of docker use) until they get systemd.... Luckily that won't happen as systemd doesn't support musl which Alpine uses for libc.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 5y agoI'm very glad for that too.
- rzzzt 5y agoThere is some work going on around replacing OpenRC in Alpine, this might be the thing the author is alluding to: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoThank you for sharing this. I was not aware of it.
- gforce_de 5y agowhoever maintains the comparison of init-systems at https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html should include OpenWRT's 'procd'