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s6
- 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
nix-processmgmt
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What does the minimal version of NixOS consist of?
I somewhere saw this project being mentioned: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt
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Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
That's nice and it showcases how Nix can create a declarative process management atop a script-based imperative manager. How is your experience with it? Also note that there's https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt, a manager agnostic processes management framework supporting s6 among others, but your way seems a bit more straightforward.
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is it possible to use nix on a non-systemd distro like void or artix?
There's a project still being developed: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt my understanding is that if home-manager would use it (I don't know if there is even plan to do that, it's not the same author), it would be able to work without needing systemd.
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NixOS 21.05 Released
(builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt/archive/6def8584c6b028c922c550859a07b989d21d6f73.tar.gz")
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Using nix-shell instead of docker-compose
It's not really clear to me what you are asking. Are you maybe looking for nix-processmgmt? (NixCon 2020 talk: https://cfp.nixcon.org/nixcon2020/talk/TW79FU/)
What are some alternatives?
dinit - Service monitoring / "init" system
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.
init - KISS Linux - Init Framework
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
tini - A tiny but valid `init` for containers
emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
archbox - Easy to use Arch Linux chroot environment with some functionalities to integrate it with your existing Linux installation. Mirror of https://momodev.lemniskett.moe/lemniskett/archbox
hummingbird - Hummingbird init system for Linux based operating systems.
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]