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Original author(s) | Roy Marples |
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Developer(s) | OpenRC Developers |
Initial release | 5 April 2007 |
Stable release | 0.55.1[1]
/ 18 September 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | C,[2] Shell |
Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD |
Size | ~1.6 MB |
Type | Init daemon |
License | 2-clause BSD license |
Website | wiki |
OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like computer operating systems. It was created by Roy Marples, a NetBSD developer who was also active in the Gentoo project.[3][4] It became more broadly adopted as an init system outside of Gentoo following the decision by some Linux distributions not to adopt systemd.[5][6][7]