sysvinit Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. D

   D

   Dinit

    2 likes

   Service monitoring / "init" system.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   D

   

   Is Dinit a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
2. 

   

   systemd

    16 likes

   systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.

   14 systemd alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Is systemd a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
4. O

   O

   OpenRC

    6 likes

   OpenRC is a dependency-based init system that works with the system provided init program, normally /sbin/init. It is not a replacement for /sbin/init. OpenRC is 100% compatible with Gentoo init scripts, which means you can probably find one for the daemons you want to start in...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   O

   

   Is OpenRC a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
5. R

   R

   runit

    8 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   R

   

   Is runit a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
6. S

   S

   s6

    4 likes

   s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed for process supervision. It can be used as an init system. You can also use all its programs separately.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   S

   

   Is s6 a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
7. 

   

   Launchd

    3 likes

   a free system array created by Apple inc. For BSD - including macOS as macOS is based on the Darwin kernel of BSD

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • BSD
   • PC-BSD
   • FreeBSD
   • DragonFly BSD
   • FreeNAS
   • NetBSD
   • OpenBSD

   

   Is Launchd a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
9. C

   C

   Chaperone Process Manager

    2 likes

   Chaperone is a lightweight alternative to process environment managers like systemd or upstart. Chaperone provides an extensive feature set, including dependency-based startup, syslog logging, zombie harvesting, and job scheduling.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Virtualization

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted
   • Python

   C

   

   Is this a good alternative to sysvinit?

    
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    Supervisor

     2 likes

    Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.

    14 Supervisor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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11. N

    N

    nosh

     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    N

    

    Is nosh a good alternative to sysvinit?

     
12. F

    F

    finit

     2 likes

    Finit is a small SysV init replacement with process supervision similar to that of daemontools and runit. Its focus is on small and embedded GNU/Linux systems, although fully functional on standard server and desktop installations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Sweden
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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13. 

    

    systemE

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    Is systemE a good alternative to sysvinit?

     
14. P

    P

    procd

     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • OpenWrt

    P

    

    Is procd a good alternative to sysvinit?