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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I have to write startup scripts time-to-time and I have to say that I don’t miss at all the old init-system.

    Not that systemd don’t have flaws, but in old init-system even simplest daemon took too many lines. Not to mention hacky comment definitions.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    There's new init systems now.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    which ones? I wasn't aware there were new ones

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Runit, Dinit, S6 are the hot ones. And OpenRC, but that is only a service manager i believe?

    You can try them with Artix, has a flavor of each.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    Void Linux uses runit, for example. Here's the documentation they provide on how to use it: https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html

    It only takes 5-10 minutes to read and understand how to manage all your services and write your own. Simple and fast. If only systemd were this easy!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    oh I thought runit was an old init system from before systemd, I guess I shouldn't have assumed that systemd was the latest one because it's everywhere, thanks for the info I'll check it out!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    ....you assumed correctly, runit first released 2004, meanwhile systemd released 2010

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    So there aren't any new ones being developed since systemd?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

    Dinit and s6 are newer. But i see s6 more in server space (modular, uses a compiled database, complex to use) while Dinit in desktop (simple & flexible).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

    I think s6 may be newer