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upstart: a broken design and abandoned by its author and canonical https://lwn.net/Articles/581548/

openrc: I don't believe openrc had a process supervision story 8-9 years ago. from what I recall at the time openrc was just a slightly better sysvinit.

runit: I have a lot of experience with runit, and while it works, it has many footguns and is hard to use correctly.

s6: a better runit with better footguns

A great thing that more people should read, is https://lwn.net/Articles/578210/ from one of the Debian developers who voted to switch to systemd. It touches on things like the lack of adoption of upstart, and openrc not solving the problems they had.



Is systemd footgun-free? I doubt it.

(Runit worked reasonably fine for me for last few years, and it's way simpler and saner than SysV-init, at least.)




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