andrewbaxter/puteron
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Systemd competitor
5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2025-07-02 · latest 2026-02-03
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I wrote up some issues with service reliability here https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron/?tab=readme-ov-file#... Design-wise, I think having users modify service on/off state *and* systemd itself modify those states is a terrible…
comment by rendaw · 2026-02-03 · in Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support -
I made https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron/ ! It's more similar to systemd in that it has a dependency graph, but I think it's simpler to use and better aligned with typical use cases. I haven't used it as a full init system though,…
comment by rendaw · 2025-11-17 · in Runit Linux: Complete Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision -
…really hard to get a big picture of FWIW here's mine, where I wrote a bit more about the issues: https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron/
comment by rendaw · 2025-08-23 · in Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor -
I made a Systemd competitor/aternative https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron that uses JSON for everything. The advantage to JSON is you can use a `$schema` key at the top and vscode will do autocompletion, error checking, and (I think)…
comment by rendaw · 2025-07-07 · in Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files -
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Show HN: Puteron, Systemd Competitorstory by rendaw · 2025-07-02 · 2 comments