arcan VS daemon

Compare arcan vs daemon and see what are their differences.

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arcan daemon
33 1
1,492 12
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8.0 6.6
16 days ago 8 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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arcan

Posts with mentions or reviews of arcan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

daemon

Posts with mentions or reviews of daemon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-16.
  • Systemd: The Good Parts
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021
    > You mean Slackware users on some random forum.

    Believe it or not, that's actually the official slackware forum. And whatever solution those guys come up with, it will likely become the official solution.

    > Besides, the solution they came up with uses XDG autostart which has nothing to do with systemd.

    The slackware solution involves a project that nobody has heard of before, just so it can imitate the "user-level service" feature provided by systemd: https://github.com/raforg/daemon

    > Not to mention that it's not even doing the exact same thing as the Gentoo solution and running two more commands in addition to pipewire.

    The slackware solution requires starting those 3 processes (pipewire, pipewire-media-session, pipewire-pulse) separately from 3 different .desktop files, likely because the daemon tool above can't properly reap the pipewire-pulse process (not sure whose fault is this though).

    On the other hand, the gentoo solution can start all 3 processes with just 1 .desktop files, because `pkill` takes care of it. Simple and effective.

    I think the key difference, in this case, is that the slackware guys are trying their best to imitate a systemd feature, while the gentoo guys seem to focus more on finding the best way to allow users to enjoy pipewire.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing arcan and daemon you can also consider the following projects:

hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)

rapiddisk - An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those volumes locally or export them across an NVMe Target network. Manage it all from a web API.

waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)

e1000e-dkms-debian - Intel e1000e ethernet adapter driver (DKMS version) for Debian

openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports

DTLS-Examples - Examples for DTLS via SCTP and UDP using OpenSSL

ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

gentoo - [MIRROR] Official Gentoo ebuild repository

rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool

oksh - Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox

stress-ng - This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.