13 comments

  • arjie 1 day ago
    One release every 4 years. So this is like monit or systemd-supervisord and so on, a process manager. I have to say the thing I most enjoy about it is the fact that it's got the classic GNU trend of "here's an obviously pronounceable spelling; let's say it a different way".
    • brendyn 20 minutes ago
      I've never heard of this program but I heard the voice in my head pronounce it is p-yes immediately. Apparently I've internalised GNU English to totally native level.
    • elric 1 day ago
      It's how you would pronounce it if it were Latin. In which case it would mean "feet". Maybe that's not what inspired the name.
      • kaszanka 1 day ago
        Also in Polish, which would mean "dog".
      • dash2 1 day ago
        I think the Latin for feet would be "pedes", singular "pes".
        • hulitu 11 hours ago
          Romanes eunt domum.
    • stackghost 1 day ago
      The only thing missing is a recursive acronym e.g. Pies: Pies Is Experimental Software or something equally cringe like Hurd
      • stevekemp 1 day ago
        Pies is eshewing systemd?
      • calvinmorrison 1 day ago
        how about "Active Development" without any progress in 3 decades
  • KronisLV 1 day ago
    I'm reminded of this https://supervisord.org/

    Used it inside of containers a few times when I wanted to keep things simple and have a container that ran both a web server and PHP-FPM at the same time and kept them up.

  • Alifatisk 1 day ago
    Are the collection of components run in some kind of namespace? Say I run a Pies for Gitlab (which in itself had lots of components), and I run a Pies for Frpd, do they share the same space or are they isolated from each other? Am I maybe overthinking this? Perhaps its just a program manager.
  • written-beyond 1 day ago
    Is this the gnu version of systemd?

    edit: I know it's not a monolith like systemd but service/unit files are a core component of systemd

    • eliaspro 1 day ago
      systemd is not a monolith.

      It's a collection of losely coupled components and services of which basically every single one can be disabled or replaced by another implementation.

      • chlorion 1 day ago
        No it definitely is a monolith.

        It's NOT loosely coupled in any way. Try running any part of the systemd software suite on an openrc system and see how that works out?

        I have no idea why people are so insistent on claiming that its not a monolith, when it ticks off every box of what a monolith is.

        • jcgl 1 day ago
          Most systemd components do rely on some core systemd components like systemd (the service manager) and journald. I would say that a core thesis of systemd is that Linux needs/needed a set of higher-level abstractions, and that systemd-the-service-manager has provided those abstractions. The fact that other parts of systemd-the-project rely on those abstractions does not imply that the project is monolithic.
      • dTal 1 day ago
        Explain the existence of "elogind" and "eudev" then?

        It might be the case that one can disable some components of systemd, on a systemd system. It is certainly not the case that they are "loosely coupled", or there would be no incentive to maintain forks of core systemd components with the sole and explicit purpose of decoupling from systemd.

      • cyberax 1 day ago
        In theory. In practice, systemd is a mess of different components that have subtle dependencies on each other. And while the core of systemd is solid enough, everything around it is not.
      • stackghost 1 day ago
        It's a collection of tightly-coupled components that are functionally a monolith because large distros tend to rely on the various components rather than allowing modularity.
    • bladeee 1 day ago
      GNU Shepherd
  • mgaunard 1 day ago
    The area where I've seen the most homegrown implementations of things like these is HFT, with the caveat it's also designed to be distributed, integrated with isolation systems, start/stop dependency graphs...

    I once worked for a company which chose to use Kubernetes instead, they regretted it.

  • bandrami 1 day ago
    I've been using this init for years and always liked it. It's sad the Init Wars ignored it completely.
    • bmacho 1 day ago
      Init for what, your desktop or in a product?
      • bandrami 14 hours ago
        Cloud servers mostly, though I still use it on my DAW workstation. I suppose both of those are "products" in a very tenuous sense since I make money from them.
  • asa400 1 day ago
    If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.
    • RupertSalt 1 day ago
      I was in a group who began pronouncing the dashes in command-line options as "tack" and they said it was military lingo, but I cannot now find any connection to dash, hyphen, "minus", or Morse code "dah".
      • dumah 1 day ago
        Tack is short for tackline, a length of line used to delimit messages encoded with flags in the days before shipboard radio communications.

        Military and civil emergency communications use alternative pronunciations where clarity and brevity are critical.

      • Shank 1 day ago
        Ooh! I do this! I got it from Darren Kitchen from Hak5! I have no idea where or why he did it though.
    • myth2018 1 day ago
      • flomo 1 day ago
        Funny, I had a job where everyone called it "N-Jinx", so I said that at another job and everyone looked at me like an idiot.
        • thisislife2 8 hours ago
          Huh? Guess you do learn something new everyday - I've been calling it that for ever too but apparently it is "engine-x" ... (thanks to you, I guess I won't sound like an idiot any more, to some ;).
    • db48x 1 day ago
      Lots of counterexamples to that one.
    • zekrioca 1 day ago
      No.
    • Artoooooor 1 day ago
      English, dammit...
    • hiprob 1 day ago
      sudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?
  • evilmonkey19 1 day ago
    Pies it means "foot" in spanish
    • otterley 1 day ago
      Plural - “feet”
    • baq 1 day ago
      'a dog' in polish
  • gary17the 1 day ago
    Good to hear that some people out there still have some old-school -style sense of humor.
  • relaxing 1 day ago
    > pronounced "p-yes"

    Absolutely not.

    Apologies to the Slavs, but there’s already a utility pronounced like that.

  • notnmeyer 1 day ago
    > The name Pies (pronounced "p-yes")

    oh come on

  • garciasn 1 day ago
    Almost 20 years ago now I worked for a company that sat a group of about 25 of us down to talk about their latest survey named...CRMPIES.

    Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat there chuckling. Thank you for bringing back that unfortunate memory.

    • hsbauauvhabzb 1 day ago
      If you don’t think whoever named it that way wasn’t based, you’re almost as naive as your coworkers :P
  • tete 1 day ago
    Everyone needs to have made a web framework. Everyone needs to have made a programming language. Everyone needs to have made a supervisor. Everyone has to have made a container manager. Everyone needs to have made a text editor.
    • binaryturtle 1 day ago
      Absolutely. I recently wrote my first compiler to get it off the bucket list… brainf*ck compiler/interpreter #100010134 or such? :-) Well… it was a fun half hour.
    • killerstorm 1 day ago
      What's the value of making a supervisor? It seems to be mostly about gluing together some system APIs.
      • trklausss 1 day ago
        In some industries it’s critical. Think about aerospace where code is almost always homegrown or done by specialized company, and are specific implementations for specific needs. You don’t have that many COTS due to the criticality etc.
        • wakawaka28 1 day ago
          The thing about specific needs is that they are usually narrow. You could throw darts at the dartboard of problems, working on very narrow problems for years and never get a job solving any of them. If a problem calls out to you and you won't stop until you get a job with it, then the effort could be worth it. But sometimes, even if you get THE job, you'll have a slight twist in constraints that makes most of your prep go by the wayside.
          • direwolf20 1 day ago
            Solving a variety of problems makes you better at solving problems.
            • wakawaka28 16 hours ago
              I agree, but we all have to pick our battles. Do you want to solve real problems, enjoy other things in life, or solve some problem that a guy on the internet said is essential for any "real" programmer?
    • wakawaka28 1 day ago
      I disagree with all of this. If you have time and interest, or a real need, then go ahead. I've never met a programmer who's made all of these things in my 20 years of programming, and that includes PhDs, professors, and old graybeards about to retire.
      • kalterdev 1 day ago
        I think that at least one thing from the least is feasible.
        • wakawaka28 16 hours ago
          That makes a lot more sense than saying everything is essential lol.