InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

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  1. InitWare

    The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system.

    Agree and so I went looking and here is the reason: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/commit/3ee721035525dbb1....

    They started with a specific version of systemd and have been mutating it since then, so the whole this is "tainted" with LGPL now.

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  3. nixbsd

    An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel

    https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd This is a very cool project that I hope will get upstreamed into NixOS proper, eventually.

    I always thought InitWare would be good for that. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26850 --- we've been discussing this before NixBSD existed, even!

  4. nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd This is a very cool project that I hope will get upstreamed into NixOS proper, eventually.

    I always thought InitWare would be good for that. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26850 --- we've been discussing this before NixBSD existed, even!

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