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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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[–] who@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Looks promising. This bullet point in particular caught my eye:

  • Efficient event-driven, polling free operation.

I wonder if this implies a service dependency graph, which IMHO is the most valuable thing about systemd's design. I would welcome a small, noninvasive init system with that feature.