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systemE
🤣 A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs lisp 🤣
10Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
729GitHub stars
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What it is
🤣 A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs lisp 🤣
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year11 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2020-01-09 19:50:36 UTC to 2025-10-20 07:35:50 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
11 sourcesThis was posted by someone else in the thread, but SystemE is close to that dream [1]. There is also this HN thread [2] with more interesting links:
> Using the tooling in this repo, I am able to boot from linux to sinit as PID1, and from there to Emacs acting as PID2 using --script mode, performing all typical rc.boot system initialization using Emacs lisp until we hit the getty.
[1]: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849963
In Emacs is my new window managerMaybe SystemE? https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
In Emacs is my new window managerHere you go: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
In Emacs should become a Wayland compositorSystemE – A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
167 points · Open discussion> A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs lisp
https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE#readme
In Systemd Home DirectoriesSystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
162 points · Open discussionsystemE, a lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
29 points · Open discussionsystemE, a lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
5 points · Open discussionSystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
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