Alfad

Alfad (pronounced "alpha dee") is a minimalistic yet another init system, written in Rust.

What it is for?

The reasons for its existence as follows:

• It is written in Rust. So it can be qualified for mission critical use cases. One can use Ferrocene — an open source qualified Rust compiler toolchain for this purpose.

• It is designed for non-generic, specific preconfigured use cases. Therefore it lacks convenient automatism on purpose, because such systems do not utilise these features in the first place.

• Systems, those targeted to be run by alfad are not even meant to have a minimal shell onboard or even any kind of scripting, but be 100% script-free systems.

• It meant to be as deterministic as possible, with very little jitter allowance.

What it is not?

Don't be misled in the idea: the alfad init system is not a replacement or alternative to systemd and never will be. If you are after big and complex system, such as multimedia desktops, consumer level setups where you need fully feature-packed automated solutions, the alfad is not for you: just keep systemd as is.