systemd Alternatives

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   OpenRC

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   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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   Good alternative?Is OpenRC a good alternative to systemd?

    

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   OpenRC vs systemd Comments

   Positive comment by Guest · Feb 27, 2017

   There is a long list of technical arguments for why OpenRC is better than systemd. Popularity wise systemd seems to win these days. But as we've seen over centuries popularity served us wrong many times. Even Upstart was better, pretty bad it faded away.

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   • OpenRC is Free and Open Sourcesystemd is also Free and Open Source
   • OpenRC is Lightweightsystemd is not according to our users
2. D

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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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   Good alternative?Is Dinit a good alternative to systemd?

    
4. R

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   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 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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   runit vs systemd Comments

   Positive comment by Guest · Feb 26, 2020

   Simple, stable, hasn't updated in years, and works.

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   • runit is Free and Open Sourcesystemd is also Free and Open Source
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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

   

   Good alternative?Is sysvinit a good alternative to systemd?

    
6. S

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   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

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   Good alternative?Is s6 a good alternative to systemd?

    

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   s6 vs systemd Comments

   Positive comment by burnx50 · May 25, 2020

   s6 is fully portable, properly modular, very small, and it has a moderate development pace - these things can't be said about systemd. Also s6 is a humble community project, it isn't developed by engineers from megacorporations :)

   Positive comment by Lazerbeak12345 · Mar 15, 2023

   Reliable, multithreaded and sooooo fast.

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   • s6 is Free and Open Sourcesystemd is also Free and Open Source
   • s6 is Minimalistic and Lightweightsystemd is not according to our users
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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

   

   Good alternative?Is Launchd a good alternative to systemd?

    
10. C

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    Chaperone Process Manager

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    Chaperone is a lightweight alternative to process environment managers like systemd or upstart. Chaperone provides an extensive feature set, including dependency-based startup, syslog logging, zombie harvesting, and job scheduling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Virtualization

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python

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    Good alternative?Is this a good alternative to systemd?

     
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    Supervisor

     2 likes

    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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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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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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    Good alternative?Is nosh a good alternative to systemd?

     
13. 

    

    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 systemd?

     
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    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

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    Good alternative?Is procd a good alternative to systemd?