s6 Alternatives

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   Dinit

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   Service monitoring / "init" system.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   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

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   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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   systemd vs s6 Comments

   Negative comment by Guest · Jul 21, 2020

   People who use s6 are precisely the ones who want to go away from systemd.

   Negative comment by burnx50 · May 25, 2020

   systemd is not portable, is not truly modular and is not small code-wise.

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   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

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   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

   

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   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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   Launchd

    3 likes

   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

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • BSD
   • PC-BSD
   • FreeBSD
   • DragonFly BSD
   • FreeNAS
   • NetBSD
   • OpenBSD

   

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    nosh

     3 likes

    The nosh package is a suite of system-level utilities for initializing and running a BSD or Linux system, and for managing daemons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

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    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

    

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    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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    nitro

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    tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD

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