What exactly is a BSD style init framework?

I keep seeing this statement but what does it actually mean? Looked it up on Wikipedia and it went right over my head... How is Arch like/unlike BSD and most other Linux distros? I have a friend who's hardcore into FreeBSD and he loves it because it's so organized, all user apps go to the same folder, system stuff to a certain folder, etc, instead of everything all mixed up with lots of places to put everything like most linux distros have. Is this similar to how Arch works?
Thanks,
Nathan

BSD:
* Startup scripts are generally kept in /etc/rc.d/
* A small number of files (/etc/rc.sysinit, /etc/rc.local, etc.) control the startup process
Sys V:
* Startup scripts are generally kept in /etc/init.d/
* There are also a number of /etc/rcX.d/ directories -- one for every run-level (i.e. X represents 0 through 6 and S, so, 8 altogether)
* The contents of each /etc/rcX.d/ directory is a collection of soft-links to scripts in /etc/init.d/
* Each soft-link in a specific /etc/rcX.d/ directory is named so it will execute in the order of it's alphabetical relationship to the other soft-links
Example (ls -1 /etc/rc3.d/):
S05vbesave <-- execs first
S10acpid
S10sysklogd
S10xserver-xorg-input-wacom
S11klogd
S12dbus
S12hal
S98usplash
S99acpi-support
S99laptop-mode
S99rc.local
S99rmnologin <-- execs last
This example was actually 39 lines long -- and just represents run-level #3. In addition, /etc/rc.local executes after the target run-level is finished doing init.
So, given Sys V's complex hierarchy -- spanning 8 run-levels by an average of N-number of daemons -- you can probably guess why so many people rave about Arch's BSD-style init schema ;-)

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