Comparison of S6 with systemd

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There is a comparison of S6 with sytemd on the Gentoo forum
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1105854.html
it is s6-rc, not the newer s6-66

There is another comparison here

This one mentions 66

There are further comparisons of all init systems on the Gentoo Wiki
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
This one includes s6-66

Also on the Artix forum

Artix has the best package support for s6-rc . Artix does not at the moment have s6-66.

The basic conclusion is that S6 is technically superior to systemd, for a number of important reasons.

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Artix used to support 66 as well, but they dropped support before Eric @obarun released his great new version

suite66-archived

Who knows, maybe with the many improvements & very active development of 66-0.7.x.x they might have a stab at it again.

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I did not know that . The Artix I looked at had svinit, runit, s6-rc, and I think OpenRC
I had a look at your link
Yes that is the old version of 66 with the ‘-’ in the commands.

I hope they do come back to it… the way Artix organise their package support for various init systems is excellent. No other distro does it as well.

I think getting 66 into the Debian distros via your init diversity spins is probably more important. Just getting the Debian world to accept init diversity would be a real breakthrough.

I think another place where s6-66 may be accepted is FreeBSD. Do you know if anyone has attempted a BSD port?

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