<story><title>OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pxc</author><text>When I was a teenager adventuring through the GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux userland and all its interchangeable components (including on Gentoo!), OpenRC was awesome compared to what I was used to (SysV). Beautiful colorized output, fast startup with parallel execution of jobs... all before Upstart (RIP, though I don&amp;#x27;t miss it) and Systemd.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty happy with Systemd these days, and in some ways I don&amp;#x27;t mind the way it has &amp;#x27;standardized&amp;#x27; (read: dominated) Linux stacks. But I&amp;#x27;m glad that people are still doing the work to keep OpenRC viable and integrating it into a full-featured, long-lived, relatively popular distro.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bamfly</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve used several Linux init systems over the years.&lt;p&gt;OpenRC is the only one I&amp;#x27;ve ever &lt;i&gt;liked&lt;/i&gt; using. Not sure why it never seemed to catch on with any of the major distros, even before Systemd made itself nigh-unavoidable.</text></comment>