[TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • The Register

"Alan D. Salewski" <ads(a)salewski.email> writes: i'm currently running Gentoo+OpenRC as my daily driver, with OpenRC an 'official' Gentoo option. https://www.gentoo.org/ Previously i was running Void+s6/66, after having been running Void+runit, with runit being Void's default system (at least at the time). https://voidlinux.org/ Artix is an Arch-based non-systemd distro, with support for OpenRC, runit, s6 and dinit. https://artixlinux.org/ Obarun is an Arch-based distro using 66, which is roughly a 'wrapper' for s6, providing declarative syntax for service definition. https://wiki.obarun.org/ Not a distro, but the s6-overlay project allows using s6 as PID 1 in Docker containers: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay The developer of nosh has a page outlining the know problems with Sys V rc: https://jdebp.uk/FGA/system-5-rc-problems.html The developer of dinit has written a nice comparison of various non-systemd systems providing init / service supervision / service management: https://github.com/davmac314/dinit/blob/master/doc/COMPARISON The developer of s6 has pages: * explaining his perspective on various non-systemd systems: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html * providing a general overview of s6 itself: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/overview.html * discussing s6's approach to 'socket activation', which uses file descriptors: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/socket-activation.html (s6 is the system i'm most familiar with in this space, not least because i'm the porter and maintainer of mdoc(7) versions of the documentation for various parts of the s6/skaware ecosystem.) Alexis.