s6
The s6 supervision suite. (by skarnet)
go-systemd
Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files (by coreos)
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| s6 | go-systemd | |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 5 | |
| 726 | 2,342 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 7.4 | 2.5 | |
| 4 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| C | Go | |
| ISC License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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 2023-06-27.
- 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
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Trouble with s6 services
Using the s6-service add command I added a service called "libvertd" when I ment to put "libvirtd". Now when I run s6-db-reload it spits out a error message saying "undefined service name libvertd". But I cant remove it using s6-service remove libvertd because that just spits out a generic help message and doesn't change anything. I also couldn't find documentation on https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ or https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/ as the command just *doesn't* exist on those pages. (also no man or info page).
- Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
go-systemd
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-systemd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
- Distribuindo uma aplicação Go sem o Docker
- Managing systemd services with Go
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File Systems implemented in Go
go-systemd - Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files.
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Help with go and dbus?
There's also this project from coreos people: https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd
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Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
It's not really a binding. It doesn't link to anything in systemd, it's just aware of the convention used by systemd to pass the file descriptors into the process. The actual code being executed from that repository is around 60 lines, I guess:
https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd/blob/main/activation/li...
I just used that rather than writing it myself because it felt like it didn't add much to the story.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing s6 and go-systemd you can also consider the following projects:
dinit - Service monitoring / "init" system
journald - Go implementation of systemd Journal's native API for logging
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
gcsfuse - A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
init - KISS Linux - Init Framework
fsnotify - Cross-platform file system notifications for Go.
tini - A tiny but valid `init` for containers
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
minikeyvalue - A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines. Used in production at comma.ai
hummingbird - Hummingbird init system for Linux based operating systems.
service - Run go programs as a service on major platforms.