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 ...

Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating ...

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