Your first impressions did not include reading the release notes. (-: The authors made it very clear that it does not "run all as root".
I'm curious what your use case for those are.
Are you needing to `init 1` or `systemctl isolate rescue.target`?
Or is it perhaps a need to `systemctl status` on services?
I might just not be that experienced with the wide use-cases for these applications, but what are your hypothetical use cases?
Re:Microsoft, I Forgive You
by matt_wulfeck on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:25PM
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Really I just want a way to write simple service scripts and have the OS keep them alive. upstart, sysv init, systemd, whatever works...
I don't like logging into my dev box and then manually starting one-off scripts for all of the services that I like running (docker, dnsmasq, apt-cache, foo.py, etc etc).
Then use the Ubuntu-packaged runit or daemontools; or port s6, perp, daemontools-encore, or nosh.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376
* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html
I don't know whether the Debian-packaged nosh will install on Ubuntu as it stands.
* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html
Those were my first impressions. I'm cautiously optimistic about it though, and confident they'll work out the kinks with time. But right now it's still better to be on BSD/Mac if you like a unix-like development environment without running linux.