There was also uselessd, which was the systemd init system without the rest. https://bitbucket.org/Tarnyko/uselessd/src/linux-devel/ https://bitbucket.org/Tarny

There was also uselessd, which was the systemd init system without the rest. https://bitbucket.org/Tarnyko/uselessd/src/linux-devel/ https://bitbucket.org/Tarnyko/uselessd/src/linux-devel/ It was a joke, but nonetheless if you like systemd's init system them you are probably going to like uselessd, because that's what it is - systemd's init system without the rest. At 82k loc it's huge for what it does, but nonetheless is order(s?) of magnitude smaller than systemd. If it was active I'd trust it more that systemd on that basis alone. I can't say I'm a fan of systemd's event driven approach. A system whose state depends on it's configuration plus past state is usually a nightmare to debug and control compared to a system who state is dependent on it's configuration alone - and that's how it has worked out for me and systemd. The simple cases work fine of course but systemd's power over what came before it is it's dependency relationships it allows you setup. But they are the very things that break in weird and wonderful ways when the events it's reacting to fire in an unexpected order. If you could set them up reliably without much thinking it would be a big win - but as it is, not so much.