SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches

For those still managing to resist systemd, SysVinit 3.08 was released on Thursday as the newest update to this init system...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sysvinit-3.08

[uid313]

I don't know about you, but I am very happy with systemd, it works great.
But to be honest, I don't know much about this init system things, I just use Ubuntu, and it uses systemd and it works well, I don't really know much about it.

[kaidenshi]

Beyond SysV, you have more modern init software like runit, S6, and OpenRC that all follow the classic UNIX paradigm of "do one thing and do it well" for those who don't care for the complexity and feature creep of systemd. For full on desktop/workstation distros, systemd is fine and does what it is intended to, but for embedded and containerized installations one might prefer something smaller and simpler which is why Alpine for example avoids systemd. As with everything else in the Linux orbit, choice is good.

[Raka555]

Beyond SysV, you have more modern init software like runit, S6, and OpenRC that all follow the classic UNIX paradigm of "do one thing and do it well" for those who don't care for the complexity and feature creep of systemd. For full on desktop/workstation distros, systemd is fine and does what it is intended to, but for embedded and containerized installations one might prefer something smaller and simpler which is why Alpine for example avoids systemd. As with everything else in the Linux orbit, choice is good.

Alpine does not "avoid" systemd. Systemd is very glibc specific and hence can not work with musl-libc, which Alpine is based on.

[Vorpal]

From the article:

SysVinit 3.08 is comprised of just a handful of patches that were upstreamed from Gentoo Linux.

I thought Gentoo used OpenRC? So why would they care about sysvinit?

[kiffmet]

Vorpal Gentoo can be used with systemd, OpenRC , SysVInit, and probably others - the user makes this choice.

[Chewi]

I thought Gentoo used OpenRC? So why would they care about sysvinit?

/sbin/init and other tools like shutdown are still from SysVinit, even when using OpenRC.

[tuxd3v]

Vorpal Gentoo can be used with systemd, OpenRC , SysVInit, and probably others - the user makes this choice.

Devuan also provides several choices

[FireBurn]

Vorpal Gentoo can be used with systemd, OpenRC , SysVInit, and probably others - the user makes this choice.

And as someone whos' used all 3 over the years, I can happily say I prefer systemd, also knowing the commands are the same for almost all distros now makes configuring things a whole lot easier

[SpyroRyder]

Alpine does not "avoid" systemd. Systemd is very glibc specific and hence can not work with musl-libc, which Alpine is based on.

I suspect that Alpine still wouldnt go systemd if you did manage to get it working with musl though