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

submitted 3 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone actually hate systemd?

It's a little too monolithic and kitchen-sink-including for my liking. It doesn't feel like the "do one thing and do it well" style, it has a pretty large attack surface as a result.

Oh, and binary log files.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s a little too monolithic and kitchen-sink-including for my liking. It doesn’t feel like the “do one thing and do it well” style, it has a pretty large attack surface as a result.

That makes sense. I could see how that would irk a lot of people, but I’d personally trust the widely used, intensely scrutinized, load-bearing, open-source processes, over a lesser known one.

Oh, and binary log files.

Yeah those are great… Or do we dislike those too? 🙃

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are a lot of command-line tools for text, like grep and sed, that don't work on binary files. Whether this matters to you depends on your workflow. (I use grep a lot.)

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 21 points 3 days ago

Just journalctl | grep and you're good to go. The binary log files contain a lot of metadata per message that makes it easy to do more advanced filtering without breaking existing log file parsers.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Oh. That’s fucked up. Appreciate the info