init vs initscripts

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init		initscripts
	Project
2	Mentions	1
89	Stars	43
-	Growth	-
3.6	Activity	7.6
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Shell	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

initscripts

Posts with mentions or reviews of initscripts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-31.

Ipcalc – Command line CIDR calculator with IPv6 support
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2022

ipcalc is older than 2015, but it lived in a different repository:
https://github.com/fedora-sysv/initscripts/commits/313773794...
ipcalc gets removed here:
https://github.com/fedora-sysv/initscripts/commit/76201baf7a...
All in all it looks like ipcalc predates sipcalc by three years (1998 vs 2001)

What are some alternatives?

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

dinit - Service monitoring / "init" system

ipcalc

s6 - The s6 supervision suite.

ipcalc6 - an ipv6 calculator built in rust that "looks and feel" like the ipcalc command on linux

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.

zram-init - A wrapper script for the zram linux kernel module with zsh and openrc support

InitKit - Neo-InitWare is a modular, cross-platform reimplementation of the systemd init system. It is experimental.

community - Officially unofficial KISS community repository, mirror of https://codeberg.org/kiss-community/community