davmac314/dinit
Service monitoring / "init" system observed · 2026-10-11
Health v2 · maintenance only
86/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 60
- Longevity 100
Flags: prerelease_only
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 93.5
- age_days: 3990
- days_rel: 109
- days_push: 10
- n_releases_24m: 7
Adoption not part of the score
1166 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-10-11
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Dinit is a service supervisor and init system with dependency management, capable of running as a system init (PID 1) or as a per-user service manager. It starts services in parallel, monitors processes, restarts failed services with dependency-aware rollback, and is controlled via the dinitctl tool.
Use cases
- replace systemd with a lightweight init system on linux
- manage user services without root
- supervise daemons and restart them when they crash
- start services in parallel with dependency ordering
- run a service manager on a minimal or BSD-like system
When to choose
- you need a portable, dependency-aware init or service supervisor
- you want a lightweight alternative to systemd or runit with dependency support
- you need both system-level and user-level service management from one tool
When to avoid
- you need systemd's full ecosystem (journald, socket activation, cgroups integration)
- you only need simple process supervision without dependency graphs
- you are on a non-POSIX platform such as Windows
Facets
application · maturity active
monitoring configuration-management cli operating-systems self-hosted developer-tools bsd cpp cross-platform init-system service-manager service-supervisor dependency-management process-management devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/davmac314/dinit · fetched 2026-10-11 · 2993eb50362f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| davmac314/dinit | main | 86 |
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