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 - linux@programming.dev
 
- cross-posted to:
 - linux@programming.dev
 
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).



Plenty of people did. “What’s the point of change?” “I’m happy with Sys-V” “I don’t like Poettering”, “Lennart is too powerfull” and a lot more irrelevant and personal attacks.
Please don’t accuse me of gaslighting whilst gaslighting me in return. I was there, I lived through the worst of the Debian wars and saw some great people leave the project, and a side of some friends that I really didn’t like. But that war is done and I have zero interest in continuing it so I’ll leave this here.