Are there any comparisons of init systems that focus daily use metrics? Stuff like what writing scripts looks like and boot times and logging capabilities? (And any other use cases that are common)
Are there any comparisons of init systems that focus daily use metrics? Stuff like what writing scripts looks like and boot times and logging capabilities? (And any other use cases that are common)
These comparisons assume the systems do the same thing, resulting in a comparable system once everything is up and running.
That is just not the case. Systemd does a ton more wrt. security, hardening and reliability. E.g. it has udev integrated and not running “stand-alone” since it tends to lock itself up when it needs to start long-running services in response to HW showing up. Yes that happens rarely but there is nothing you can do about it. Logind locks down permissions to HW way more tightly than the “forks” that have the same problems that the pre-logind system had – and that led to logind getting developed in the first place. Lots of sandboxing options are built into systemd and widely used tomrun services (I rarely saw any sandboxing elsewhere so far outnofmthenbox), measured boot is pretty much a systemd-only thing at this time, … .