Dinit a systemd alternative without age-verification requirements
21 hours ago
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- #open-source
- Dinit is a service manager/supervision system that can function as a system manager and init on Linux.
- Version 0.20.0 of Dinit is now available.
- Recent news includes KaOS Linux discussing transitioning to Dinit and antix-26-rc1 offering Dinit as an init option.
- Dinit is portable, compact, robust, usable, well-documented, and open-source under the Apache License 2.0.
- It works on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOS, with potential for other POSIX systems.
- Dinit is available in many Linux distributions, as an OpenBSD package, or can be compiled from source.
- Distributions like Chimera Linux, eweOS, and Artix Linux support Dinit as a system init out-of-the-box.
- Documentation includes man pages, a README.md, and a Getting Started guide for new users.
- Dinit was created by Davin McCall, with contributions from the open-source community and financial support from Artix Linux and sponsors.