Since systemd-260 and later have been tainted by the slopmongers, and Linus won’t ban LLM-laundered contributions to the Linux kernel, I guess it’s time to resume hacking on the “initd” that I started putting together for NetBSD…

#ai #llm #slop #opensource #systemd #systemd260 #linux

Don't worry, I'm not Lennart; I won’t insist on initd doing everything for everyone. It should just be about service activation, like launchd. Mach-style IPC would be an entirely separate project, as would an updated logging system…
@eschaton the launchd style of things never offended me as being the anti-unix-christ.
@eschaton and this is me, a primary author of netbsd rc.d :-)
@mrgtwentythree Even systemd itself didn’t strike me that way, only the aggregation of so many other things into it.
@mrgtwentythree Incidentally, a similar kind of aggregation with XPC is why launchd stopped being Open Source: A bunch of stuff was integrated into it for expedience, then oops! It would be too much work to abstract and extract the parts that can’t be shared, so the whole thing is just closed now! Sorry!
@eschaton the only killer feature you need (for me :) is a restart policy