I’m considering void but will home be persistent brig it was made on Ubuntu?
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > > > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for > init, > > Yes yes yes yes, YES!!! > > > but recognize you will be missing some features (which could probably > be done > > with something else), the daemon services will be written and managed > differently, > > s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system. > > > and there are a lot fewer people available for support. > > Who ever needed init system support before systemd? > > > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption you're > using > > systemd. > > Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway? > > > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for me > because > > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their > repositories which > > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I would > be > > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts. > > Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is > supported. Void > uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts > (called run > scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File. > > Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and featureful, > but what I > said about runit is true of s6 too. > > SteveT > A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-:
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