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Top 11 init-system Open-Source Projects

  • tini

    A tiny but valid `init` for containers

    • Project mention: Anakin – Automatically Kill Orphans | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

  • s6

    The s6 supervision suite.

    • Project mention: OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-27

  • InfluxDB

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  • finit

    Fast init for Linux. Cookies included

  • dinit

    Service monitoring / "init" system

    • Project mention: Chimera Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-16

    The author has a high-level overview doc here: https://github.com/davmac314/dinit/blob/master/doc/COMPARISO...

    Now, of course, with service management the devil is in the details, so before you use something as system-wide init, I find it useful to ask yourself: How do they restart services? Do they give up at some point? How do they notify administrators of failures? Do they detect crashloops? How configurable is the logger? What CLIs are there to debug the state of the system (which service was first to fail, where is its definition)? How to make ephemeral or parametrised services? How to add pre-start, post-start, pre-stop, post-stop hooks? Can you use environment variables in your commands, and where do they come from?

    I don't think you can find answers to some of these questions in docs. Once you do learn the answers, they may be disappointing - I indeed found myself quite disappointed in systemd after having to debug many failed-to-boot machines. With s6, I never run it, but there are few choices that raise eyebrows, e.g. the restart delay is hardcoded in source code to be 1 second. With dinit, I have yet to finish reading all its manpages, but at least timeout and restart policies are configurable.

  • InitKit

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

  • 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.

  • minibase

    small static userspace tools for Linux

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  • init

    KISS Linux - Init Framework (by kisslinux)

  • nosystemd.org

    Website for arguments against systemd and further resources

  • freeinit.org

    The FreeInit.org homepage

  • cinit

    Container sys init

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source init-system projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 tini 9,471
2 s6 726
3 finit 607
4 dinit 531
5 InitKit 362
6 InitWare 177
7 minibase 176
8 init 89
9 nosystemd.org 64
10 freeinit.org 6
11 cinit 0

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