Finit is a small SysV init replacement with process supervision similar to that of daemontools and runit. Its focus is on smal ...

Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stop ...

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

OpenRC is a dependency-based init system that works with the system provided init program, normally /sbin/init. It is not a re ...

procd is a process and system init service for OpenWRT. It's less resource intensive as it's intended for embedded devices, wo ...

Chaperone is a lean init-style startup manager for Docker-like containers. It runs as a single lightweight full-featured proce ...

Advanced process manager for production Node.js applications. Load balancer, logs facility, startup script, micro service mana ...

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

The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system.

eudev is a fork of systemd with the aim of isolating udev from any particular flavor of system initialization. This is a proje ...

systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style). It is intended to provide a better fram ...