So much for '#SystemD is not a monolith' guilt tripping. It's modular in theory alone. #Flatpak is the next critical software to introduce a hard dependency on systemd, after #Gnome. Those of us using #Runit, #OpenRC, #GNUShepherd etc are looking at a situation similar to #elogind.

What's common among them? A corporate #OpenSource ecosystem that only they can maintain. Meanwhile, those who question this are treated with contempt!

https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/

#gentoo #void #guix #alpine #linux

I wondered why #GNUShepherd wouldn't be a more desireable init system than #systemd. Then I saw the Scheme syntax (pic 1, the other is systemd).

No wonder there's a clear favourite, even just looking at this… one is a configuration file, the other a dedicated language (inspired by Lisp I guess). I sometimes wonder why some people don't seem to apply the KISS principle to syntax as well…
#Linux

Does anyone know how to prevent shepherd from adding the timestamp into the log file? I am using the #:log-file to redirect the output, but the program itself logs the time, so my logs now look like

2025-03-31 23:34:52 2025-03-31 23:34:52 INFO: Anyway, check done

Hm.

#shepherd #gnushepherd

Since we live in the era of Shepherd timers, I wanted to migrate to them from traditional cron jobs. For that I needed to get sending the job output via email working. Quick write up in case you need it as well: https://wolfsden.cz/blog/post/using-gnu-shepherd-timers-as-crons.html

#gnuguix #guix #gnushepherd #shepherd