Init Systems

This page collects info on init systems and methods for avoiding systemd.

How stuff boots

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/initscripts-fork/ - Pretty much plug and play
Daemon scripts can be fetched here:https://bitbucket.org/TZ86/arch-rcscripts/src
http://www.fefe.de/minit/
- Docs http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/linux/howto/minit-howto/minit-howto-v0.2.2/minit-howto-v0.2.2.html
Ninit docs http://riemann.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/ninit/
- Had to create /run/dbus manually, need to write up a service that takes the tmpfiles.d into account?
- How come there's no eth0? Probably forgot udev. Yup, that was the case. Huuurp.
- Need to create module service now for custom module configs because minit doesn't autohandle this stuff.
- It's also stupid fast, but idk why eth0 ain't working. Also'd like some turning off cleanup man.Turns out I just had to type in eth0, hurp. Stuff on shutdown also has to be written down too.
- I like both ninit and minit, but the config files are a pain to manage by hand. It'd be pretty trivial to make a script or GUI to manage them though. Also tried both variants, but can't find a place to check how often minit's updated, so I subscribed to their mailing list.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152606 - haven't tried yet
http://smarden.org/runit/ - haven't tried yet nor checked maintenance activity
http://universe2.us/epoch.html - haven't tried yet, but like the initscripts forked by TZ86, it's still maintained up to the present
OpenRC (haven't tried it yet, but I know that Gentoo's been maintaining this)