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On 02.03.18 17:11, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2018, at 12:13, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>>
>> [...] there are a number of options that I've heard of vying for 
>> consideration:
>>
>>  - finit
>>  - jobd (is this still a thing?)
>>  - nosh
>>  - OpenRC
>>  - runit
> 
> Oh, and also s6: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html

I've run s6 + s6-rc as init replacement for FreeBSD 11.1 on my laptop 
for over a year. The init_path kenv simplifies testing alternative init 
systems a lot. It works really well and required only minimal porting.