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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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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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[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because it tries to do too much. Boots can fail because some random thing is broken. Just goes against the unix philosophy of a tool for a specific job.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

This. Init having a pretty important role, you would hope being simple and minimal would be a priority. I just try to stick my head in the ground and pretend like it's all ok.