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, FreeBSD, Docker and DragonFly BSD apps. The best runit alternative is systemd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like runit are OpenRC, Launchd, s6 and perp.

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  1. Dinit

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    Service monitoring / "init" system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  2. nitro

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    tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
     
  4. Hummingbird Init icon

    Hummingbird Init

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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