{"slug": "openrc", "name": "OpenRC", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 1.28, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2025-11-17", "latest": "2026-06-29", "why": "", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["OpenRC"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 749759008, "item_id": 46859938, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859938", "by": "hparadiz", "date": "2026-02-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OpenRC on Gentoo works great.", "excerpt": "OpenRC on Gentoo works great. I have a full bleeding edge Wayland KDE Plasma with Pipewire setup that I game on. OpenRC recently added user \"units\" aka services running as a user after a session start. Something that many new GUI user space applications rely on for various things. There are growing pains. https://bugs.gentoo.org/936123 Especially when upstream hard requires systemd. More annoying when there's no real", "context": "", "use_case": "init system", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["init system", "init system on debian"], "compared": [{"slug": "systemd", "name": "systemd", "co": 6, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715630", "title": "Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858829", "title": "Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893471", "title": "Runit Linux: Complete Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"compare": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 779466545, "item_id": 48716659, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716659", "by": "muvlon", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to run debian with OpenRC during a time when systemd was already the default.", "excerpt": "FWIW, debian did the gentoo approach for years. I used to run debian with OpenRC during a time when systemd was already the default. It and other init systems remained fully supported by the distro for quite a while. Eventually, the pain of supporting everything became too much and debian did go with \"my way or the highway\", which I supported at the time and still do. I have no idea how that could be \"objectively wor", "context": "", "use_case": "init system on Debian", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian"}, {"id": 749759008, "item_id": 46859938, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859938", "by": "hparadiz", "date": "2026-02-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OpenRC on Gentoo works great.", "excerpt": "OpenRC on Gentoo works great. I have a full bleeding edge Wayland KDE Plasma with Pipewire setup that I game on. OpenRC recently added user \"units\" aka services running as a user after a session start. Something that many new GUI user space applications rely on for various things. There are growing pains. https://bugs.gentoo.org/936123 Especially when upstream hard requires systemd. More annoying when there's no real", "context": "", "use_case": "init system", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support"}, {"id": 735235845, "item_id": 45952240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952240", "by": "rahen", "date": "2025-11-17", "stance": "compare", "quote": "runit, s6, and OpenRC don't have the downsides of systemd, but they also only cover a subset of its features", "excerpt": "The best challenger to systemd in terms of feature parity is probably dinit: https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/ Have a look at Chimera Linux if you want to give it a try: https://chimera-linux.org/ runit, s6, and OpenRC don't have the downsides of systemd, but they also only cover a subset of its features", "context": "", "use_case": "init system", "switched_from": "", "story": "Runit Linux: Complete Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision"}]}