Launchd Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. D

   D

   Dinit

    4 likes

   Service monitoring / "init" system.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   D

   

   Good alternative?Is Dinit a good alternative to Launchd?

    
2. O

   O

   OpenRC

    8 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

   

   Good alternative?Is OpenRC a good alternative to Launchd?

    
4. 

   

   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.

   15 systemd alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Global

   

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5. R

   R

   runit

    9 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

   

   Good alternative?Is runit a good alternative to Launchd?

    
6. 

   

   sysvinit

    7 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   Good alternative?Is sysvinit a good alternative to Launchd?

    
8. S

   S

   s6

    5 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

   

   Good alternative?Is s6 a good alternative to Launchd?

    
9. F

   F

   finit

    3 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

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

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   F

   

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10. 

    

    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

    

    Good alternative?Is systemE a good alternative to Launchd?

     
11. 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

    

    Good alternative?Is procd a good alternative to Launchd?

     
12. N

    N

    nitro

     Like

    tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD

    N

    

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13. 

    

    Hummingbird Init

     Like

    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

    

    Good alternative?Is Hummingbird Init a good alternative to Launchd?