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Welcome openrc . The good question is what happened to launchd , runit and , and Nosh . All were in the running to replace rc'ng .

joseph 10y ago
I also wonder that. I've read good things about OpenRC, but I always thought of the lack of runlevels as a defining feature of BSD, so color me a little sad to see this go into a BSD operating system.
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
What about s6?
- skarnet 10y ago
  Still in active development too. :) And no, Jonathan, I haven't heard anything from TrueOS people. Which is a shame, because if a distribution is being built today, with no existing legacy service script base to cater to (or if it has to be converted anyway), going for anything else than s6 or nosh is staying in the past.
jbergstroem 10y ago
Nosh seems to progress nicely - it just doesn't get a lot of public attention. If you follow the FreeBSD or debian mailing-lists you will find a new email announcement about releases every 3-4 weeks. Init still seems to be undecided in FreeBSD land; my hope is that FreeBSD 11 or 12 at least makes a decision about considering to switch (or not). Latest freebsd quarterly update: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#The-nosh-Project https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.h... Latest release notes (jan 14th, 2017): https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/01/msg00519.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/01/msg00519.html
dsr_ 10y ago
Nosh is still in active development; I see release announcements to the Debian Users list every month or two. It looks like the core is good and lots of conversion infrastructure is being put into place around it.
JdeBP 10y ago
Version 1.32 of nosh is on its way. Version 1.31 went out a week or so ago. I have pointed out to Ken Moore that they can marry s6 with OpenRC. I've also offered my experience with things like getting PCDM running under proper service mangement, which is one of the many things that I have already done. I've also already been through all of the fun with the interdependencies between devd and the Mewburn rc system, and can offer experience of that, too. I have had per-user service managers running on TrueOS/PC-BSD for over a year, as well, and already have the per-user Desktop Bus stuff that is coming down the pipeline from the Desktop Bus people. * http://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg01570.html http://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg... I've had zero response from the TrueOS people so far. I don't know whether Laurent Bercot has heard anything.

joseph 10y ago

I also wonder that. I've read good things about OpenRC, but I always thought of the lack of runlevels as a defining feature of BSD, so color me a little sad to see this go into a BSD operating system.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

What about s6?

skarnet 10y ago
Still in active development too. :) And no, Jonathan, I haven't heard anything from TrueOS people. Which is a shame, because if a distribution is being built today, with no existing legacy service script base to cater to (or if it has to be converted anyway), going for anything else than s6 or nosh is staying in the past.

jbergstroem 10y ago

Nosh seems to progress nicely - it just doesn't get a lot of public attention. If you follow the FreeBSD or debian mailing-lists you will find a new email announcement about releases every 3-4 weeks. Init still seems to be undecided in FreeBSD land; my hope is that FreeBSD 11 or 12 at least makes a decision about considering to switch (or not). Latest freebsd quarterly update: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#The-nosh-Project https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.h... Latest release notes (jan 14th, 2017): https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/01/msg00519.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/01/msg00519.html

dsr_ 10y ago

Nosh is still in active development; I see release announcements to the Debian Users list every month or two. It looks like the core is good and lots of conversion infrastructure is being put into place around it.

JdeBP 10y ago

Version 1.32 of nosh is on its way. Version 1.31 went out a week or so ago. I have pointed out to Ken Moore that they can marry s6 with OpenRC. I've also offered my experience with things like getting PCDM running under proper service mangement, which is one of the many things that I have already done. I've also already been through all of the fun with the interdependencies between devd and the Mewburn rc system, and can offer experience of that, too. I have had per-user service managers running on TrueOS/PC-BSD for over a year, as well, and already have the per-user Desktop Bus stuff that is coming down the pipeline from the Desktop Bus people. * http://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg01570.html http://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg... I've had zero response from the TrueOS people so far. I don't know whether Laurent Bercot has heard anything.