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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: 0.252s | source
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donnachangstein ◴[03 Apr 25 16:40 UTC] No.43572244[source]▶
Writing software specifically for the BSDs then licensing it LGPL is like trying to sell them chilled, bottled poison from a roadside stand. What were they thinking?

That said, this sounds like what systemd should have been: a service control manager and nothing more, before they got a thirst for power and wanted to control any and every thing about the system.

But one of those already exists, it's called launchd, as long as you don't mind XML vs Windows INI syntax.

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1. wkat4242 ◴[05 Apr 25 22:19 UTC] No.43597276[source]▶
Good, that will stop it from coming to BSD :) I really don't want it.

It's not systemd per se that I hate, I just really have an issue with Linux distros constantly changing stuff around to solve issues that I don't have. Another one is the move away from ifconfig. So I have to learn new stuff just for the sake of it.

This is the main reason I went for BSD, they have a more traditionalist outlook.

If they do come up with a new init system I expect it to be fully tailored to take advantage of BSD's own unique properties and not something tagging a long "because everyone else uses it". Especially not Linux because BSD is not Linux and we don't want it to be. Otherwise we would have used Linux in the first place.