OpenRC features

OpenRC has many features. Here's a list of the key ones :-

• Works with  POSIX shell scripts and userland
• Works with existing init
• Names runlevels which can be stacked (inherited)
• Can specify dependencies in code
• Can run services in parallel
• Ensures daemons really start and tracks them so you know when they've crashed
• Services can be re-entrant (important for the network being configured in the background)
• Colourised output - and trivial to use in init scripts
• Can log entire console output of bringing the system up, to aid any debugging (not necessarily OpenRC debugging)
• Support for  Gentoo,  FreeBSD and  NetBSD out of the box
• Support for variety of architectures including i386, amd64, ppc and sparc64
• Provides an API for any shell script or C program to use OpenRC colourisation and service manipulation
• Every userland program and library function has a man page
• It's fast - 29 seconds to boot my laptop running Gentoo Linux  PNG |  SVG
• Available as a  2-clause BSD license