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InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

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167 points sunshine-o | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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travisgriggs ◴[03 Apr 25 14:02 UTC] No.43569845[source]▶
This actually is kind of cool imo. There are things I like about systemd, and things I don’t. And this seems to fit much more closely around the things liked. Wish I had the time to play more with it on Linux. Would love to see Debian switch to something like this. Always felt like Debian was stuck between “all in” or “go without”. This would have been a nice middle ground choice to have had back in those days.
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markstos ◴[03 Apr 25 16:24 UTC] No.43572018[source]▶
Yes, I much prefer this more nuanced take of "here's some things I like about systemd and here's some things I don't" then the blanket "everything about systemd sucks" feedback.

I wish this project well. I hope it improves compatibility with BSDs for more projects.

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skyyler ◴[03 Apr 25 16:32 UTC] No.43572141[source]▶
"everything about systemd sucks" people generally don't understand the problems that systemd is attempting to remediate, in my experience. Just repeating dogma that they heard someone they consider cool say.
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toast0 ◴[03 Apr 25 17:33 UTC] No.43572916[source]▶
Or perhaps, we don't have the problems that systemd is trying to solve. Or systemd creates new problems that we didn't need or want. Kind of like pulseaudio.
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1. jeroenhd ◴[04 Apr 25 08:17 UTC] No.43579554[source]▶
I do. systemd solves a lot of my problems, actually. Of course all of systemd could be cobbled together by combining a dozen or so independent projects, but that mess is exactly why normal people (even normal computer people) shy away from Linux.

And I don't recall a lot of software working well when Pulse isn't available, so I don't know why people still bring it up. Perhaps it's because I wasn't there at the time, but I've only seen ALSA as "that audio system you use when you have nothing else available". I still need the PulseAudio-wrapper for Pipewire to be useful for my systems, so clearly the Linux world has moved to Pulse-first.