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OpenRC alternatives

  • systemd

  • systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style). It is intended to provide a better framework for expressing services' dependencies, allow more work to be done concurrently at system startup, and to reduce shell overhead.With systemd-nspawn and machinectl facilitate the creation and management of software containers.

    tags: boot configurable init optimal-performance service-manager
  • sysvinit

  • The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system.

    tags: boot emacs gcc gnu init
  • Upstart

  • Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.

    tags: ubuntu boot boot-manager init init.d
  • runit

  • runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems.

    tags: boot init init.d
  • nosh

  • The nosh package is a suite of system-level utilities for initializing and running a BSD or Linux system, and for managing daemons.

    tags: init systemd sysvinit uselessd utility-computing
  • procd

  • procd is a process and system init service for OpenWRT. It's less resource intensive as it's intended for embedded devices, works with busybox and uClib, hotplug2, libubox and ubus. It watches configuration files to start or restart services and init scripts

    tags: boot init init.d process-manager sysvinit
  • uselessd

  • uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project to reduce systemd to a base initd and process supervisor, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism. Basically, it’s systemd with the superfluous stuff cut out, a (relatively) coherent idea of what it wants to be, support for non-glibc/non-Linux platforms, an approach that aims to minimize complicated design and various cleanups.

    tags: init systemd