wifi
WiFi daemon for connecting to WiFi networks (encrypted or unencrypted) with gokrazy (by gokrazy)
s6
The s6 supervision suite. (by skarnet)
| wifi | s6 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | |
| 36 | 800 | |
| - | 2.1% | |
| 2.7 | 7.8 | |
| 10 months ago | 4 months ago | |
| Go | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | ISC License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wifi
Posts with mentions or reviews of wifi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-16.
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Gokrazy – A Native Go Userland
Hello, I’m the maintainer!
You’re right about the lack of a C runtime being intentional. However, C programs can be run if you take on the task of keeping them up-to-date: https://gokrazy.org/prototyping/
Regarding WiFi, we have https://github.com/gokrazy/wifi which currently only works for unencrypted WiFi. If at some point there is a Go solution to configure encrypted WiFi, I’m all for it!
s6
Posts with mentions or reviews of s6.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-11.
- Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout
- S6 – skarnet's small supervision suite
- OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems
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are there any good reasons for me to avoid systemd
A (rare) good critique to systemd can be found here. Written by the developer behind s6, which happens to be scheduled to replace OpenRC on Alpine Linux. For completeness-sake, some of the main reasons why Alpine doesn't prefer systemd do not apply on most other distros.
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A discussion about the Ultimate Linux Desktop
It got mass-adopted while being imperfect, so that's to be expected. Thankfully its inception and the criticism that followed have paved the way for the likes of dinit and s6.
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Which do you use systemd or openrc? Why do you use what you use?
this page and this page, both by Laurent Bercot, creator of s6.
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init software: What's the difference?
Of the two I have experience with, runit is simpler and thus easier to get the hang of than s6-rc/s6. Though the s6 (not s6-rc) docs at the author's site contain a lot of info (including apologetics and rationales) that applies almost equally well to runit
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What do you guys think about this?
systemd: Yes; it's awaiting its "PipeWire". Thankfully, the likes of s6 and dinit are very promising. Though I can actually appreciate that systemd is addressed. As ultimately it helps in raising awareness that will benefit whatever software will replace it eventually.
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The (GNU/)Linux rabbit hole has been a negative influence on my mental state
Arguably this is less troublesome to solve compared to the other concerns. As we're inevitably waiting for the system supervision suite that will be to systemd what PipeWire has been to PulseAudio. I'm very optimistic about this as both s6 and Dinit are shaping up lovely.
- Systemd 252 Released
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wifi and s6 you can also consider the following projects:
rsync - rsync in Go! implements client and server, which can send or receive files (upload, download, all directions supported)
dinit - Service monitoring / "init" system
go-daemon - A library for writing system daemons in golang.
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
go-sqlite - Low-level Go interface to SQLite 3
minibase - small static userspace tools for Linux