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
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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Docker
- BSD
- FreeBSD
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux





