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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 … subtitle

finit Alternatives

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    /systemd-alternatives

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

    Open Source

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    /runit-alternatives

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

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    /sysvinit-alternatives

    Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.

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    /s6-alternatives

    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.

    Open Source

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    /supervisor-alternatives

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

    Open Source

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    /upstart-alternatives

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

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    /nosh-alternatives

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

  9. /launchd-alternatives

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

  10. /pm2-alternatives

    Advanced, production process manager for Node.js

  11. /procd-alternatives

    procd is a process and system init service for OpenWRT.

  12. /m-monit-alternatives

    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.

  13. /dinit-alternatives

    Dinit is a service supervisor with dependency support which can also act as the system "init" program.

  14. /faster-alternatives

    Faster is a very little init script aimed at Linux power-users and geek stuff oriented people.

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