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systemd
Analyzed about 7 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 1 day ago
An OS-agnostic Run Control system, derived from Gentoo Linux's baselayout. Works on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Licenses:
BSD-3-Clause
Upstart
Analyzed about 21 hours ago
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.
uselessd
Analyzed about 19 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...
GNU Shepherd
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Claimed by GNU Analyzed about 12 hours 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...
pony-initialisation
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Analyzed about 10 hours ago
System bootup scripts with pony flavour, this is a fork of initscripts-fork
Licenses:
gpl3_or_l...
Open launchd
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Analyzed about 1 hour 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