s6 Alternatives
s6 is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to s6 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, FreeBSD and Docker apps. The best s6 alternative is systemd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like s6 are OpenRC, runit, Launchd and sysvinit.
Alternatives list
- 12 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
a free system array created by Apple inc. For BSD - including macOS as macOS is based on the Darwin kernel of BSD
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- BSD
- PC-BSD
- FreeBSD
- DragonFly BSD
- FreeNAS
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
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The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
S
13 systemE alternativesUsing 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
S
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
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People who use s6 are precisely the ones who want to go away from systemd.