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IMO runit is abandonware at this point. No release since 2014. Have you looked at s6? It’s a compelling alternative.
by cpach 5y ago
IMO runit is abandonware at this point. No release since 2014.
Have you looked at s6? It’s a compelling alternative.
- ori_b 5y agoRunit is finished at this point. It does what it says, and I haven't run into bugs. Churn isn't a virtue.
- h1x 5y agoExactly this. Runit was designed to be simple and in simple software, at some point, there is just not much to improve.
- aerique 5y agoVoid Linux, "the BSD of Linux", uses runit and it has been fine since forever. If there were any issues they would be worked on.
- cpach 5y agoI’m glad to hear runit works fine for them. I’m not so sure there isn’t any room for improvement though. In the related s6 project there is lot of discussions about adding new features that are beneficial for supporting a modern Linux distro.
- imiric 5y agoAs a datapoint of one, I've been using Void Linux for near a decade. I haven't once been in a situation where I thought systemd would help. Granted, I don't run many custom services, but for what it does, runit does a great job. Something a bit more user friendly like s6 would be nice, but otherwise it stays out of my way and I don't think about it. NixOS/Guix would be worthwhile switching to, but Void is comfortably simple.
- bitwize 5y agoBut... it's not ｍｏｄｅｒｎ!
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoBoth runit and s6 are copies of daemontools which hasn't been updated since 2001. Try doing diffs of runit and s6 against daemontools. Are the differences are significant. What "improvements" were made. Things can be built to last, including software. That so many programmers today are not building such things (possibly they are incapabale) does not change fact that some did so in the past (whether intionally or not), and some still can.
- cpach 5y agoI’m not convinced that all development that has been made on runit/s6 over the years has been superfluous.