From 52442cc2f7f2303f54b9d8693468c51054a27acf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davin McCall Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 23:16:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add some info about Nosh, another init/service system I just found out about. --- doc/COMPARISON | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/COMPARISON b/doc/COMPARISON index a65b4ea..a8c023a 100644 --- a/doc/COMPARISON +++ b/doc/COMPARISON @@ -41,6 +41,21 @@ A highly modular init system which apparently offers dependency management strives for portability). +Nosh (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html) +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +Another seeminly modular init system offering dependency management and socket +activation, with BSD licensing. Service configuration is expressed through +directory structure (symbolic links represent service dependencies, etc). It +provides a simple shell-like scripting language with a fast interpreter, avoiding +the need for standard shell scripts. It was originally designed for BSD systems but +works on Linux too (i.e. is portable). It does not provide a D-Bus interface. +Seemingly, this package addresses most of the various complaints that have been +levelled against SystemD. Compared to Dinit, it favors chain-loading of smaller +utilities to provide even more basic functionality. By comparison Dinit tends to +avoid starting additional processes by design, expresses configuration in files +and tracks state internally. + + OpenRC (Gentoo) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The OpenRC system used in Gentoo Linux is a dependency-managing service supervision -- 2.25.1