Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee
by makomk on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:47AM
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I ran something called InitNG for a while under Gentoo, and I know there are people running Gentoo's openrc on Debian (though technically that still uses sysvinit as PID 1, it just replaces the service management layer running on top of it). Most Docker containers are running something different from the standard init, though what exactly they use varies. And so on.
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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee
by digi_owl on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:51PM
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YEp, i don't think people know how minimal the core of "sysv" really is. There is one binary, init, that do the initial (heh) lifting. From there on it hands things over to one or more files. These can be binaries, scripts, or a mix of both.