jbernardo writes:
"Having had several issues with systemd, and really not liking the philosophy behind it, I am looking into alternatives. I really prefer something that follows the Unix philosophy of using small, focused, and independent tools, with a clear interface. Unfortunately, my favourite distro, Arch Linux, is very much pro-systemd, and a discussion of alternatives is liable to get you banned for a month from their forums. There is an effort to support openrc, but it is still in its infancy and without much support.
So, what are the alternatives, besides Gentoo? Preferably binary... I'd rather have something like arch, with quick updates, cutting edge, but I've already used a lot in the past Mandrake, RedHat, SourceMage, Debian, Kubuntu, and so on, so the package format or the package management differences don't scare me."
[ED Note: I'm imagining FreeBSD sitting in the room with the all the Linux distros he mentioned being utterly ignored like Canada in Hetalia.]
(Score: 0) by Bill, Shooter Of Bul on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:56PM
Socket based activation of daemons/services
You can do crazy things like have a daemon that isn't started until it gets a request. Systemd listens on the port and then starts the daemon and hands of the port. This way the daemon doesn't have to be running all the time, and/or you can better utilize system resources depending on service demands. They're also working on integrating it into linux containers, so a service that lives inside a container gets started up upon request.
Kind of cool.
(Score: 1) by pe1rxq on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:28PM
So they are also reinventing inetd?
(Score: 0) by Bill, Shooter Of Bul on Friday February 28 2014, @01:39PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd#inetd_replaceme nts [wikipedia.org]
Integrated and expanded the functionality, yes.