On 2020-05-26 03:26, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2020 10:08:17 -0700
> Ian Zimmerman <itz@???> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-05-21 14:09, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>> > * Busybox init
>> > * Epoch
>> > * OpenRC
>> > * Runit
>> > * s6 (plus s6-rc)
>> > * Suckess init plus [daemontools | runit | s6]
>> > * systemd
>> > * sysvinit
>>
>> * GNU Shepherd ?
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
>
> The preceding looks like an extremely capable init system that will
> handle almost any situation, assuming the admin has the skill to make
> it so. It seems to enable one to do tons of things that runit doesn't
> facilitate.
>
> On the other hand, GNU Shepherd makes me realize how easy runit is to
> administer. I can do it in my sleep.
>
> If anyone does a Jitsi presentation on GNU Shepherd, I'd *really* like
> to be in the audience. This looks potentially like a very high quality
> init, probably for the kind of person with lots of tricky daemons to
> administer.
>
> Thanks for pointing out Shepherd.
>
> SteveT
>

FWIW, Shepherd has been on the Devuan beta website's init freedom page
for some time:

https://beta.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

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