[Freaky]

> Unfortunately FreeBSD's init system seems at first glance to be even more primitive than Linux's old sysV-init.

You're better off looking at the rc system[1]. It leaves a lot to be desired, but it's much better than the sysV approach.

There are ongoing efforts to modernise things a bit. The 4Q 2015 report[2] mentions a few.

I like the look of nosh, personally.

1: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/index.h... 2: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-Fe...

[api]

A clean OS with clean simple package management and a modernized init system that isn't a tower of babel would really have me sold.

[sigusr1]

Void linux is great.