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systemd
Analyzed about 13 hours ago
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups
Licenses:
lgpl21_or...
OpenRC
Claimed by Gentoo Foundation Analyzed about 7 hours ago
An OS-agnostic Run Control system, derived from Gentoo Linux's baselayout. Works on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Licenses:
BSD-3-Clause
Upstart
No analysis available
Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.
Mostly written in language not available
Licenses:
gpl
uselessd
Analyzed about 22 hours ago
uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project to reduce systemd to a base initd and process supervisor, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism. Basically, it’s systemd with the superfluous stuff cut out, a (relatively) coherent idea
Licenses:
lgpl21_or..., mit, Public_do...
pony-initialisation
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Analyzed 1 day ago
System bootup scripts with pony flavour, this is a fork of initscripts-fork
Licenses:
gpl3_or_l...
GNU Shepherd
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Claimed by GNU Analyzed 4 months ago
The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd, formerly known as GNU dmd, is a service manager that looks after the herd of system services. It provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any other init) with a both powerful and beautiful dependency-based system with a
Licenses:
gpl3_or_l...
sysvinit
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Analyzed 4 months ago
The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system.
Open launchd
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Analyzed about 12 hours ago
Open launchd is a port of Apple's launchd(8) daemon to non-Darwin systems (primarily FreeBSD). launchd is an event-based init system originally developed by Dave Zarzycki at Apple. The init system has the benefits of watchdog capability (socket activation), an event driven model, and a faster boot
Licenses:
apache_2