Frequently Asked Questions

Is finit faster than systemd?

Probably not. Since it starts things in parallell it is fastish. But no special care has been taken to make it as fast as possible. Unlike systemd which always tries to squeeze microseconds out of operations (usually by moving them into systemd itself). But unlike systemd finit doesn't do a lot and doesn't depend a lot. So it's quite easy to create a very simple setup and get a sub second boot time. While with systemd it's not as easy to disable all bells and whistles. For a fully fledged modern system with all the usual stuff enabled, systemd is likely faster.

Which systems does finit run on?

It has yet only been tested on Linux. But it doesn't depend on anything deeply Linux specific. It does however use a few GNU extensions to the C standard. But porting it to other systems is probably doable, if it doesn't work out of the box.