The Shepherd 1.0.0 released!
Quoting: The Shepherd 1.0.0 released! — The GNU Shepherd —
Finally, twenty-one years after its inception (twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It’s also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.
To celebrate this release, the amazing Luis Felipe López Acevedo designed a new logo, available under CC-BY-SA, and the project got a proper web site!
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21 Years Later, GNU Shepherd Service Manager Hits v1.0
One of the things I’ve always found most inspiring about open source is its developers’ unwavering passion for the cause. It’s a defining trait of the movement—something you don’t find in the halls of corporate offices or the loud marketing campaigns.
Just when it seems like an open-source project has faded into oblivion, just like that, it flares up again with full force. That’s exactly what’s happening with the star of this story: the GNU Shepherd project.
LWN:
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GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 released
Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Shepherd service manager has been released after a mere 21 years of development. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It's also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.
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GNU Shepherd 1.0 released after two decades in development
After more than two decades in development, the service management daemon GNU Shepherd has finally reached the 1.0-labeled milestone. Its highlights include transient and timed services, log rotation, integrated logging, as well as improved service insights. Additionally, the deprecated GOOPS interface is now gone.
More from GUIX:
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GNU Guix: The Shepherd 1.0.0 released!
Finally, twenty-one years after its inception (twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It’s also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.
To celebrate this release, the amazing Luis Felipe López Acevedo designed a new logo, available under CC-BY-SA, and the project got a proper web site!
Let’s first look at what the Shepherd actually is and what it can do for you.
The Register:
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systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0
The other new init system in the news this week is from the GNU Project, and it's called Shepherd. Shepherd itself isn't new. In fact, development started in 2003, so it's old enough to drink in the US. What is new is that the development team has released version 1.0. To go with this milestone in maturity, it also has a new logo and website.
The main distinctive thing about Shepherd is that it's implemented in GNU Guile. Guile is the GNU implementation of the Scheme programming language, and it was intended to be the GNU Project's standard extension language. Indeed, its original name was GEL, short for GNU Extension Language.
Linux Magazine (late):
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Systemd Fixes Bug While Facing New Challenger in GNU Shepherd
The systemd developers have fixed a really nasty bug amid the release of the new GNU Shepherd init system.