On 2014-10-15, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> In order to do some software testing (having mostly to do with >> different init systems), I installed 6 distros yesterday and this >> morning (I already had both 32 and 64 bit Gentoo/Openrc systems >> installed). > >> I'm more convinced than ever that Gentoo is the way to go for my >> "real" systems... > > You might find this page interesting, if You have not seen it before: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
No, I hadn't. For the immediate future, it looks like I'm going to have to support upstart, systemd, openrc and "generic sys V init". A lot of distros manage to maintain some level of backwards compatibility with sys V init scripts, but that level seems to be falling. -- Grant
