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Boot-Up Manager Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any debian derivative system. With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up scripts, without the necessity to handle thru complex links and permissions. Read more BootUtils BootUtils is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome. cinit cinit is a fast executing, small, and simple init with support for profiles. It is aware of dependencies and executes processes in parallel. dmassage dmassage parses the dmesg of your OpenBSD system. fancylogin a login programs available for Linux fbgetty fbgetty is an extended getty program. It support extended tag set, escape codes. It refresh the display when the virtual terminal is activated. fgetty fgetty is a mingetty stripped of the printfs which can be linked against dietlibc, yielding a 5k binary with a much smaller memory footprint. finit finit is an extremely fast /sbin/init replacement with focus on small embedded GNU/Linux systems. It is based on Claudio Matsuoka's original finit with I/O, service and hook plugin extensions. Finito Finito is a trivial replacement for rcS, which allows serial/parallel execution of init scripts. This allows paralell running of init tasks, while ensuring some tasks may follow others. francine a themeable console login program for Linux and Unix frc frc is a C replacement for the script /etc/init.d/rc. Like the conventional rc script, frc handles the startup of services when init enters different runlevels. However, frc also implements some extra features. gogetty gogetty is a very lightweight getty for recent linuxen and possibly other modern unices. It demonstrates the worst of both C (badly designed system library) and UNIX (ioctls, /etc/passwd). InitNG Initng is a full replacement of the old and in many ways depricated sysvinit tool. It is designed with speed in mind, doing as much as possible asynchronously. ksysv ksysv is an editor for 'System V'-style init schemes inspired by RedHat's tksysv. minit minit is a a small yet feature-complete init. It can start and restart services, pipe stdout to a dedicated log process, start services in sync mode and more. myinit myinit is a simple "init" program with parallel execution and dependencies via reference counting (by way of "start" and "stop" commands). Network Console on Acid Network Console on Acid connects a pseudo terminal to the console's virtual terminals (/dev/tty0...n) that are normally only accessible to someone with local keyboard access. pam_login removed all non PAM stuff and added a lot of nice features from the shadow login program. This means, pam_login will read and honour /etc/login.defs Qingy Is Not Getty a replacement of getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice rch a rc-script handler as a binary program rEFIt rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. It provides easy access to the EFI environment and serves as a hook for pre-boot applications. Beyond that, the project aims to become a common platform for extensions to the built-in boot capabilities, like legacy BIOS booting on Apple's legacy-free Intel computers. rungetty rungetty is a minimal virtual console getty based on mingetty. runit a daemontools alike replacement for sysvinit and other init schemes. runit runs on Debian GNU/Linux, OpenBSD 2.9, FreeBSD 4.4 SCPM SCPM is a tool to manage different configuration profiles of a Linux system. It has support for switching profiles at runtime as well as booting into a profile. simpleinit simpleinit is a replacement for the SysVinit package that comes with new-boot-0.2 which is a set of high quality boot scripts that demonstrate an elegant and easy to administrate runlevel-based setup that does not have any of the drawbacks of classic SysVinit setups. Slackware Modules Manager Slackmod is a tool written in gtk2-perl finalized to kernel modules management. Purposely created for Slackware, it replaces functionalities of rc.modules through an easy interface usable from all users. Slackmod contains some automated functions that allow the user to neglect all configuration's aspects. SLiM SLiM is a simple login manager for X11. It features customizable options, themes, and support for PNG and XFT. It does not depend on a particuar toolkit or desktop environment. sysmaster a Slackware (7.0) system startup replacement for /etc/rc.d shellscripts written entirely in C TinyLogin a suite of tiny Unix utilities for handling logging into, being authenticated by, changing one's password for, and otherwise maintaining users and groups on an embedded system. It also provides shadow password support to enhance system security twsinit an init replacement. Mostly just a proof of concept thing at the moment but its quite capable of getting a system up and running upstart Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. Virtual Console init Virtual Console init is an /sbin/init clone for virtual consoles. It is very easy to set up and use because it has no configuration files. It is very small and has builtin getty, login, klogd, and slogd. It is suitable for embedded systems and home Linux boxes. XDM-External Greet a patch to XDM that allows it to use an external program to prompt the user for their username and password
