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A Survey of Init Systems

Init Alternatives

25.05.2021

While most distros ship with systemd, init alternatives exist. Here are a few of the leading init systems available for Linux.

Working with the JSON data format

IN-DEPTH: Data Dog

Create GUI dialogs in one line of code

NEWS: Finding a Little Zen

Markdown-based knowledge base

LINUX VOICE: Tutorial – Obsidian

Home automation with a Raspberry Pi

NEWS: Home Director

IoT

Getting started with the ELK Stack monitoring solution

IN-DEPTH: Elk Hunting

Stream processing made easy with Apache StreamPipes

NEWS: Space Flyby

Reading and writing metadata from multimedia files

NEWS: Hidden Data

A tool for distro hoppers

LINUX VOICE: Tutorial – Ventoy

Graphing the pandemic with open data

IN-DEPTH: Visualize

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