feld 10 years ago

Author did not cover DragonflyBSD's svc(8) which nobody seems to know about. It's not a full blown init system, but something you would use like daemontools. I could see this turned into an init system with significant benefits by doing so.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=svc&section...

  • vezzy-fnord 10 years ago

    Fuck, I forgot about that one.

    Yeah, the interface is daemontools-like, but its primary differentiation is the use of jails.

felixfurtak 10 years ago

I was hoping for a little more on Systemd

  • Sanddancer 10 years ago

    Systemd's a dead horse, no use flogging it any more. This article seems much more concerned about the init systems that /aren't/ discussed, but really should be.

    • logingone 10 years ago

      Could you elaborate? I know it's controversial and dispute-ridden, but it seems to still be progressing, looking on from afar as someone who has nothing to do with these things.

      • scintill76 10 years ago

        I think "dead horse" just meant "discussed and debated to death already", not that the project itself is stagnant or ill-fated.

  • girvo 10 years ago

    Somewhat related, but I recently started using systemd, and I really like it. The init systems discussed in this article are fascinating though, it'd be really interesting to see what would've changed should one of them "won the war", so to speak.