synit-nixos
Expand synit system layer and integrate in NixOS
Much of the software applications and services that we interact with today can only exist as dynamic compositions of many different software components. Dynamic systems can be adapted to serve different purposes, react to a changing environment, and can be self-updating or self-healing in response to failure. These systems exchange the predictability of static systems for the resilience of dynamism.
Our software operating systems achieve dynamism by what some call the "system layer". Traditional this would be the so-called "init" system which activates different software components. The system layer is the software activation and management of init combined with a communication layer, reactive behavior, and system introspection. Synit is an experimental system layer that provides these features according to a model that combines capability security, conversational actors, and eventually-consistent replicated state.
The Synit-NixOS project aims to bring init and system-layer portability to NixOS with Synit as an alternative to systemd.
- The project's own website: https://synit.org/
This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.
