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There seems to be rather good documentation, e.g. https://www.funtoo.org/Support_Matrix https://www.funtoo.org/Support_Matrix But excluding systemd it wouldn'
by usr1106 2y ago
There seems to be rather good documentation, e.g.
https://www.funtoo.org/Support_Matrix https://www.funtoo.org/Support_Matrix
But excluding systemd it wouldn't have been for me. While I am not a fan of all aspects of the project, it's technically superior to the older/simpler systems.
- Arnavion 2y agoFWIW, OpenRC has a new developer who's interested in adding features that Gentoo and Alpine Linux would like it to have. They were in the Alpine Linux devel IRC channel a few days ago talking about adding support for user services, socket activation, readiness notifications, INI-like declarative syntax for services, etc. https://github.com/navi-desu/openrc/ https://github.com/navi-desu/openrc/
- mid-kid 2y agoWhile it sounds great that it's finally getting some much-needed love, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of "we need to have everything systemd has". It's good to be opinionated and come up with solutions of your own. Systems work fine without systemd's entire featureset, and it's not openrc's job to be compatible. Out of those you listed, I only think readiness notifications are necessary for the existing OpenRC featureset to work more reliably. I'd rather enshrine a different method of doing user services (for example[1]) instead of having openrc require elogind to take over user session tracking, and I'm not a huge fan of socket activation bloating up the amount of running processes the longer the machine runs, outside of the user's control. [1]: https://github.com/raforg/daemon/ https://github.com/raforg/daemon/
- adrian_b 2y agoThat is debatable, so for many people the fact that a distribution like Gentoo offers the choice between using systemd and not using systemd is a strong argument in favor of using such a Linux distribution.