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Re:Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process superv... by fbarthez on Saturday August 23, 2025 @06:30AM (#44994906)
There's an appropriately minimal comparison with runit in her slides (PDF) from a talk she gave in 2024: https://leahneukirchen.org/talks/#nitroyetanotherinitsy
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Re:Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process superv... by cout on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:11AM (#44995096)
What I got from looking at that comparison is that runit starts a separate supervisor process for each process started. I like the cleaner process tree of nitro, but I wonder what the tradeoffs are for each.
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