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"I hope Alpine ends up with something similar!"

Direct quote from the website.

Eh, no. There is already a short list of viable non-systemd candidates. We.. well.. I don't need less. It already feels like I am transgressing some law by typing this on PopOS.

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There is some work going on around replacing OpenRC in Alpine, this might be the thing the author is alluding to: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html

whoever maintains the comparison of init-systems at https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html should include OpenWRT's 'procd'

Thank you for sharing this. I was not aware of it.

To each their own, but I won't touch Alpine (outside of docker use) until they get systemd or something fairly similar.

The same design goals that make them a good docker distribution may have made them to stay away from systemd.

Meanwhile others claim that systemd makes docker redundant anyway[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473581

> To each their own, but I won't touch Alpine (outside of docker use) until they get systemd....

Luckily that won't happen as systemd doesn't support musl which Alpine uses for libc.

I'm very glad for that too.

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