init system

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concept

An init system is the foundational software component of an operating system responsible for bootstrapping user space, starting and managing services and daemons, and handling system shutdown and runlevel or target transitions.

Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
init system alternative 1
init system framework 1
system initialization scheme 1

Instances (8)

Instance Via concept surface
systemd
OpenRC
Upstart
launchd
rc.d init system framework
System V init
runit
s6 supervision suite init system alternative