Init Freedom - Freedom of your life!

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Init Freedom

Init Freedom Campaign

Init Freedom is about restoring a sane approach to PID1 that respects portability, diversity and freedom of choice.


Alternate Init Systems

The following init systems are either available or being considered for inclusion in Devuan:


openrc (available since ASCII)

runit (available since Beowulf)

sinit

s6

66-devuan (no link)

shepherd

GNU/Linux Distributions offering alternate inits

The GNU/Linux distributions mentioned here support init options that are portable, compatible, small, fast, and secure.


antiX: sysvinit and runit

Artix: openrc, runit and s6

Devuan: sysvinit (default), openrc, runit. Please test sinit and 66-devuan

Dragora: sysvinit + perp

Gentoo: openrc (see Gentoo without systemd)

Guix: shepherd

Hyperbola: openrc

KNOPPIX: knoppix-autoconfig

MX Linux: sysvinit (default), systemd

Obarun: s6 supervision suite

Parabola: openrc, sysvinit, s6, systemd (default)

PCLinuxOS: sysvinit

Slackware: sysvinit

Stali: sinit

Void Linux: runit

The most current list of distributions that use inits other than systemd can be found at Distrowatch.


Other Free Unices Without systemd

One of the critical arguments against systemd is the lack of portability to other Unices and the possibility that Linux-based systems using systemd would detach from the UNIX world. OpenBSD, FreeBSD and other BSD OSes are de facto incompatible with systemd or rather, systemd is incompatible with Unices not running Linux.


The BSD family:

FreeBSD

OpenBSD

NetBSD

DragonFly BSD

and other BSD derivatives

Other UNICES

GNU/Hurd

Minix

OpenIndiana

Plan 9

Inferno

Alternate Device Managers

eudev: Gentoo’s fork of udev removed the systemd dependency so it is compatible with other init environments. eudev has been the device manager in Devuan since ASCII.

mdev: The device manager of BusyBox is mdev.

vdev: Jude Nelson’s vdev (no link)


(source: https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom, 08/24/2021)

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