> Until systemd, there wasn’t anything else that would really do the trick (djbware and stuff derived from djbware does not count, as it’s lacking too much stuff that even various hacked together rc implementations on top of sysvinit added eventually)
There was Canonical's upstart, used in Ubuntu. systemd was created to address upstart's shortcomings
> That’s why one of the goals in Chimera is to implement the actual useful systemd functionality, but independently and in our own way, without the shortcomings.
This is amazing! The greatest value of systemd is that there are many service files written for it (my own ~/.config/systemd directory has a dozen of services) and I think there is value in being compatible with it
> Until systemd, there wasn’t anything else that would really do the trick (djbware and stuff derived from djbware does not count, as it’s lacking too much stuff that even various hacked together rc implementations on top of sysvinit added eventually)
There was Canonical's upstart, used in Ubuntu. systemd was created to address upstart's shortcomings
> That’s why one of the goals in Chimera is to implement the actual useful systemd functionality, but independently and in our own way, without the shortcomings.
This is amazing! The greatest value of systemd is that there are many service files written for it (my own ~/.config/systemd directory has a dozen of services) and I think there is value in being compatible with it