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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: 0.203s | source
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ajross ◴[03 Apr 25 21:36 UTC] No.43575758[source]▶
Yeah... I wouldn't dare touch this. Probably the worst possible thing to happen to systemd would be a fork. It's an extremely complicated suite of software operating at a maximally exposed security context, and it's all but guaranteed that the small cadre of volunteers doing what amounts to a *BSD port aren't going to understand it deeply enough.

Pick the parts you want in your BSD and clone it. Don't port.

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1. wkat4242 ◴[05 Apr 25 22:22 UTC] No.43597300[source]▶
Trust me we in BSD don't want it anyway. If we wanted Linuxisms we would have used... Linux.

It's not just systemd that is a linuxism, but it relies heavily on other linuxisms like dbus. Which does work on BSD, sure. But it shouldn't be part of the core system which an init daemon obviously is.