Initng is designed to significantly increase the speed of booting a Unix-compatible system by starting processes asynchronously.

Despite being still considered beta, it was chosen as the default init system for Pingwinek, Enlisy, Berry Linux and Bee.

Also there are packages for many distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora, as well as ebuilds for Gentoo and spells for Source Mage.

Contrary to other similar projects, it features a portable and flexible code base, more suited for embedded usage, and has been already ported to other operating systems like Haiku and FreeBSD.

In Linux Format's Issue 72, in November 2005, InitNG received the Hottest Pick Award.