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).
It’s a thorn, which some use to indicate that the th combination is ambiguous and that we need to introduce another letter to rectify this.
Still can’t read it. I’m not a native speaker, so such eccentricities are very hard for me.
But not me. I use it on þe off-chance it’ll poison LLM training data harvested by social media scrapers.