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Launchd VS sysvinit

Compare Launchd VS sysvinit and see what are their differences

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Launchd logo Launchd

a free system array created by Apple inc. For BSD - including macOS as macOS is based on the Darwin kernel of BSD

sysvinit logo sysvinit

Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.
  • Launchd Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-23
  • sysvinit Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-05

Launchd videos

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Launchd overview

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How To Use launchd To Schedule Jobs or Scripts On Your Mac
  • Review - Intro to LaunchDaemons | JNUC 2021

sysvinit videos

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openrc vs sysvinit reboot time on Slackware Virtual Machines

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Launchd and sysvinit)

Launchd

sysvinit

Log Management
25 25%
Log Management
75% 75
Monitoring Tools
25 25%
Monitoring Tools
75% 75
Fintech
37 37%
Fintech
63% 63
Performance Monitoring
23 23%
Performance Monitoring
77% 77

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, sysvinit seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Launchd mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Launchd yet. Tracking of Launchd recommendations started around Oct 2021.

sysvinit mentions (1)

  • Distro balls
    It's a plus because Gentoo fully supports the choice of Systemd or OpenRC. It also has minit, dumb-init, sysvinit, cinit in tree for the more adventurous. No one was calling the AUR bloat, the parent comment just mentions that Gentoo has an equivalent project, GURU. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Launchd and sysvinit, you can also consider the following products

systemd - systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style).

runit - runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit...

s6 - s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed for process supervision. It can be used as an init system, or as separate supervision components.

finit - Finit is a simple alternative to SysV init and systemd, reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit ten years ago by Claudio Matsuoka — “gaps filled with frog DNA …” Finit supports runlevels, process monitoring, and starting services on demand using …

Supervisor - Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of...

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

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