Operating system service management

In computing, mechanisms and techniques for managing services often differ by operating system. Examples of operating system service management are:

• Service Control Manager - Used by Microsoft Windows
• launchd - Used by Apple macOS
• systemd - Used by many Linux distributions
• Upstart - Used by Google Chrome OS
• Service Management Facility - Used by illumos distributions and Oracle Solaris
• Android init - Used by Google Android
• sysvinit - Used by older Unix-like operating systems
• rc.d or rcorder-based init - Used by BSD operating systems
• cygserver - Used by Cygwin
• runit - Used by Void
• OpenRC - Used by Gentoo
• The GNU Shepherd - Used by the Guix System Distribution and GNU Hurd but designed to work on every POSIX-like system where Guile is available

See also

• init