Odd, Arch uses SysV's init, but it certainly doesn't have a SysVinit init system. It's much closer to BSD, and a lot of the tools we use are custom.
I know, and it's not necessarily bad.
I find OpenBSDs to be brilliantly straight forward. Part of that might be because there are no symlinks because there is just single or normal mode which makes more sense to me, (especially on arch) rather than many runlevels on a pre configured desktop system like redhat. Perhaps a conundrum for the goal of a universal initialisation interface.
Others include OpenRC (used by Gentoo), Upstart (used by Ubuntu) and of course systemd (used by Fedora)
I must admit that I didn't use OpenRC and Upstart, yet. I switch to Arch right before OpenRC was introduced in Gentoo.
I tried Alpine before arch and I believe that uses OpenRC as it is based on gentoo. I'd currently have less concerns running that than systemd but it was a little more fiddly than Arches interface and to add custom scripts too. -- ________________________________________________________ Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. ________________________________________________________