systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style). It is intended to provide a better framework for expressing services' dependencies, allow more work to be done concurrently at system startup, and to reduce shell overhead. With systemd-nspawn and machinectl facilitate the creation and management of software containers.
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 ...
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.
Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating ...
eudev is a fork of systemd with the aim of isolating udev from any particular flavor of system initialization. This is a proje ...