Comment by gavinhoward
3 years ago
You are absolutely correct.
So my new projects are not out yet, but I will market them heavily once they are.
One of them is an init system specifically designed to be easier to use than runit and $6, while still being sane, unlike systemd. Yes, I'm going to focus on ease of use because as you said, that matters a lot.
However, I do have a project out in the public now. It ships with the base system in FreeBSD and also ships with Mac OSX. It is a command-line tool that lots of people may use in bash scripts.
Is that widespread enough?
Also, one reason people adopted mine over the GNU alternative is speed.
> However, I do have a project out in the public now. It ships with the base system in FreeBSD and also ships with Mac OSX. It is a command-line tool that lots of people may use in bash scripts. Is that widespread enough? Also, one reason people adopted mine over the GNU alternative is speed.
Which one is that?
It's bc and dc. [1]
It's only in the latest Mac OSX: Ventura.
[1]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc
> One of them is an init system specifically designed to be easier to use than runit and $6, while still being sane, unlike systemd. Yes, I'm going to focus on ease of use because as you said, that matters a lot.
Ooh can you link directly to this? I'd love to take a look at. Runit is sharp and annoying.
Not done yet, unfortunately. That's why it's not public yet.
But it will be based on a state management system (aka build system) that is almost done.
Can you tell me what is sharp about runit? I will have a better chance of avoiding the same mistakes if I know exactly what annoys users about it.