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Afterpay VS s6

Compare Afterpay VS s6 and see what are their differences

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s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed for process supervision. It can be used as an init system, or as separate supervision components.
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    2022-10-20
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    2020-05-25

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Category Popularity

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Online Payments
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Monitoring Tools
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100% 100
Business & Commerce
100 100%
0% 0
Log Management
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Reviews

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Afterpay Reviews

Australian Payment Gateways
This one is a little controversial – some may say it encourages debt – but it certainly has seen significant growth in Australia this year. It basically splits a payment (performed at checkout) over four equal fortnightly instalments, using the customer’s chosen debit or credit card, and schedules automatic payments. Expect higher conversion rates across your store and on...

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, s6 seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 11 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Afterpay mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Afterpay yet. Tracking of Afterpay recommendations started around Mar 2021.

s6 mentions (11)

  • Which do you use systemd or openrc? Why do you use what you use?
    This page and this page, both by Laurent Bercot, creator of s6. Source: about 1 year ago
  • init software: What's the difference?
    Of the two I have experience with, runit is simpler and thus easier to get the hang of than s6-rc/s6. Though the s6 (not s6-rc) docs at the author's site contain a lot of info (including apologetics and rationales) that applies almost equally well to runit. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Trouble with s6 services
    Using the s6-service add command I added a service called "libvertd" when I ment to put "libvirtd". Now when I run s6-db-reload it spits out a error message saying "undefined service name libvertd". But I cant remove it using s6-service remove libvertd because that just spits out a generic help message and doesn't change anything. I also couldn't find documentation on Https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ or... Source: over 1 year ago
  • Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
    For the trivia, this is pushed by Laurent Bercot (skarnet), creator of s6, execline and many others. He's also working on implementing s6 as Alpine init and rc systems. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
  • The DJB Legacy
    FWIW, the spirit of daemontools lives on in the s6 project. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Afterpay and s6, you can also consider the following products

Klarna - Klarna provides e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.

systemd - systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style).

Affirm - Pay at your own pace. When you buy with Affirm, you always know exactly what you’ll owe and when you’ll be done paying.

runit - runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit...

Sezzle - Sezzle is a digital payment platform designed to help shoppers manage their financial futures with great ease.

sysvinit - Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.