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Based on our record, runit should be more popular than sysvinit. It has been mentiond 7 times 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.
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: over 1 year ago
How does it compare to Runit[[0] used by Void Linux? [0]http://smarden.org/runit/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Still, I can try to give you a rundown of Runit. Essentially, it's an init system that uses init scripts, but it has a bit more structure to improve on the shortcomings of sysvinit. Much like systemd, it also does service management, although in a much less involved way. Like with sysvinit, the task of logging is left to a separate process, though it has its own logging daemon, if you wish to use it (as logging... Source: about 1 year ago
PID 1 is special. It's the init. Instead of System V init, you can use OpenRC, runit, systemd, s6, or others. Source: over 2 years ago
Of course the original creator's document is great too: runit - a UNIX init scheme with service supervision. Source: almost 3 years ago
I learned about it here. http://smarden.org/runit/ It is not long read. Source: almost 3 years ago
systemd - systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style).
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.
Supervisor - Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of...
M/Monit - Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
Upstart - Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and...
nosh - The nosh package is a suite of system-level utilities for initializing and running a BSD or Linux...
