init VS InitWare

Compare init vs InitWare and see what are their differences.

init

KISS Linux - Init Framework (by kisslinux)
init-system Init Initscript Posix
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InitWare

The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system. (by InitWare)
initware Middleware init-system Systemd Linux Bsd Unix Init System Service Manager Dbus Freebsd Openbsd
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init

Posts with mentions or reviews of init. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-24.
  • So, I am thinking of installing kiss.
    2 projects | /r/kisslinux | 24 Dec 2021
    Yes. The init scripts are written so as to be as init-agnostic as possible. See here to see what has specifically been tested. You'll need to either change what owns /sbin/init or, when configuring the kernel, change what executable it spawns as PID 1. Depending on what init you use, you may have to set up a service manager or gettys manually like this -- custom scripts are placed in /etc/rc.d with self-explanatory suffixes .boot, .pre.shutdown, or .post.shutdown.
  • Can i use Kiss normally without eudev and only mdev
    1 project | /r/kisslinux | 4 Mar 2021
    See lines 35-50 for what udev and mdev do during boot.

InitWare

Posts with mentions or reviews of InitWare. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-31.
  • What do you understand under "FreeBSD way" and "Linuxism"?
    3 projects | /r/freebsd | 31 May 2022
  • These @rustlang ads are getting out of control.
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 27 Jan 2022
    Fear not. They get to be part of the future too.
  • Framework: Open Sourcing Our Firmware
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2022
    > Yes indeed, I should've expanded to requiring user namespaces and other kernel magic I can't expect from any random box i wanna work on.

    That's fair, do have to make sure to avoid to modules that do user systemd services.

    Longer term, though, I am hoping https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare will help with the userland part. And I hope to personally help with things like

    https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2022-January...

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f8457e20-c3cc-6e56-96a4-3090d7d...

    to get us more sane cross-platform system calls.

  • Preventing Log4j with Capabilities
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2021
    I know, but support is still in FreeBSD. My big long term plan is:

    1. Work on FreeBSD cross in Nixpkgs, because I need a way to pin forks and run nice tests without going insane. (We already have NetBSD cross.)

    2. Rig up a booting image that uses https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare, the fork of systemd.

    3. Add support to CloudABI in initware.

    4. Bang on drum for other OSes and upstream systemd to implement this stuff we can can good portable abstractions -- I think this is our best shot to get "portable containers".

  • NixOS on Framework Laptop
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2021
    I haven't bothered to have a beef with systemd, but some of us have discussed https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare to support non-Linux kernels. That would be really fun.
  • OpenBSD 7.0 Released
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2021
    I'm the first to admit that I'm ignorant of the facts here, but seeing that a systemd fork ran on OpenBSD for the first time two months ago does not give me confidence that it's "an option" in the sense that you can trust it to work well.

    And to be pedantic (this is an OpenBSD thread, after all), it's not "systemd", it's a fork of systemd called "InitWare", and the GitHub repo describes it as "alpha software".

    Someone also pointed out in the discussion you linked that it doesn't seem to include journald. Here's a relevant PR: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/pull/27

  • macOS, meet SystemD: InitWare (fork of systemD) ported to macOS
    1 project | /r/programming | 24 Aug 2021
    The project GitHub is found at https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare
  • InitWare (a systemd fork) has been ported to macOS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2021
  • Freebsd + Gnome3 => No systemd?
    1 project | /r/freebsd | 22 Aug 2021
    You may have heard of InitWare https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare. Discussions, note that one of the titles is misleading:
  • InitWare, a SystemD clone for OpenBSD
    1 project | /r/coolgithubprojects | 7 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing init and InitWare you can also consider the following projects:

dinit - Service monitoring / "init" system

rtw89 - Driver for Realtek 8852AE, an 802.11ax device

init vs dinit InitWare vs rtw89