sysvinit is described as 'The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to sysvinit for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, FreeBSD, Mac and OpenWrt apps. The best sysvinit alternative is Dinit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like sysvinit are systemd, OpenRC, runit and s6.
hummingbird is an init system designed for speed. It does nothing more than start the system and stop the system by default. There are three main "runlevels", fs which is called directly after the pseudo filesystems necessary for the system to run have been mounted...
