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A developer affiliated with boycottsystemd.org has announced and released a fork of systemd, sardonically named uselessd.
The gist of it:
uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project which aims to reduce systemd to a base initd, process supervisor and transactional dependency system, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism. Basically, it’s systemd with the superfluous stuff cut out, a (relatively) coherent idea of what it wants to be, support for non-glibc platforms and an approach that aims to minimize complicated design.
uselessd is still in its early stages and it is not recommended for regular use or system integration, but nonetheless, below is what we have thus far.
They then go on to tout being able to compile on libc implementations besides glibc, stripping out unnecessary daemons and unit classes, working without udev or the journal, replacing systemd-fsck with a service file, and early work on a FreeBSD port (though not yet running).
Responses from the wider Linux community are yet to be heard.
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Sunday September 21 2014, @07:37PM
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(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Sunday September 21 2014, @07:40PM
How funny - I just went over to slashdot, where I see it's hit their front page today too, so now the uselessd article has been published at all three venues, in increasing-size order. Nice.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey