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Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux (github.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would I hate systemd? It has fixed many of the problems with desktop Linux that many people refused to even admit were problems. This looks like it throws all that away.

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Systemd is Linux only, nitro can run on FreeBSD, too.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, was it already time to reinvent the wheel? Again?

[–] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

idk why bring up systemd in this. it seems like a minimal simple init system for specific niches, not something you'd run on a desktop or a server.