runit Alternatives

runit is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to runit for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Self-Hosted, Python and PC-BSD apps. The best runit alternative is systemd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like runit are Launchd, s6, Supervisor and OpenRC.

runit alternatives are mainly Process Monitoring Tools but may also be Virtualization Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of runit.

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runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It...

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systemd
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Free • Open Source
Linux
14 systemd alternatives
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.
- - systemd is the most popular Linux alternative to runit.
- - systemd is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to runit.
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Launchd
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Free • Open Source
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9 Launchd alternatives
a free system array created by Apple inc. For BSD - including macOS as macOS is based on the Darwin kernel of BSD
- - Launchd is the most popular Mac alternative to runit.
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s6
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Free • Open Source
Linux
BSD
8 s6 alternatives
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.
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1. Portables6 can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Lightweights6 consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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Support for Multiple threads
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Multi-threaded architecture
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Supervisor
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Free • Open Source
Linux
BSD
11 Supervisor alternatives
Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.
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OpenRC
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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10 OpenRC alternatives
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...
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1. LightweightOpenRC consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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sysvinit
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Free • Open Source
Linux
11 sysvinit alternatives
The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system.
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1. Portablesysvinit can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Lightweightsysvinit consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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nosh
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Free • Proprietary
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11 nosh alternatives
The nosh package is a suite of system-level utilities for initializing and running a BSD or Linux system, and for managing daemons.
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finit
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Free • Open Source
Linux
11 finit alternatives
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.
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systemE
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Free • Open Source
Linux
13 systemE alternatives
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.
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perp
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Free • Open Source
Process Monitoring Tool
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BSD
2 perp alternatives
The perp package provides a set of daemons and utilities to reliably start, monitor, log, and control a collection of persistent processes.
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faster
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Free • Open Source
Linux
1 faster alternatives
Faster is a very little init script aimed at Linux power-users and geek stuff oriented people. It is not industrial strength and does not comply with any other buzzwords. What it really does well is providing much better daemon handling (by means of a daemon manager e.g.
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Dinit
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Free • Open Source
Linux
1 Dinit alternatives
Service monitoring / "init" system.
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1. PortableDinit can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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