On 10/20/2014 04:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, > I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. > > Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been > patched and bolted onto and jury-rigged to get it to do things that > weren't even around (or dreamt of) at its inception. It's long past > due for a contemporary replacement. Whatever that may be. > > So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? > Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why?
I propose OpenRC, having recently tried it. So far I'm liking how it works, and it solves most of the problems I had with sysvinit. It's not a replacement for PID1, and is supposed to be compatible with arbitrary PID1 programs (sysvinit, sytemd, runit, etc.) I expect to test it with other PID1 programs at some point, but for now I'm still learning it. There's also runit, which I haven't tried yet but about which I've heard good things; and daemontools, which has already been talked up on this list. All these are already in Debian's repositories. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m2bnc3$vh0$1...@news.albasani.net
