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Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36342010

Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.

There are four main applications it is designed for:

  • As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
  • As init for a Linux initramfs
  • As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
  • As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems

Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well as always some user in Linux loves to inventing their own wheel's

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Is choice a bad thing? Each one gets the features and workflow that suits that one. You put the wheels on your Linux that you like the best, I choose mine too. They all work on the same roads.

[–] fayoh@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I guess the question is how many choices do we need, can we cooperate on a couple of them?

We already had sysvinit, busybox-init, dinit, epoch, ginitd, initng, launchd, openrc, rinit, shepherd, s6, upstart, smf, finit, BSD rc.d, and probably more.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

A choice for every person who finds the existing choices lacking for whatever reason.