Enit is an init system developed for the Tide Linux project. It features easy-to-use commands for power and service management and yaml-based service configuration

Installation Guide

Using a package manager

Tide Linux: Enit is pre-installed as the default init system through the enit package

Building from source

Download go from your package manager or from the go website
Download make from your package manager
Run the following command to compile the project

make PREFIX=/usr SYSCONFDIR=/etc LOCALSTATEDIR=/var

Run the following command to install Enit into your system. You may also append a DESTDIR variable at the end of this line if you wish to install in a different root directory

make install PREFIX=/usr
make install-config PREFIX=/usr SYSCONFDIR=/etc

Post installation

Set the default init system in your bootloader/boot-manager by appending init=/usr/sbin/enit to your kernel command-line parameters. Alternatively symlink /usr/sbin/enit to /sbin/init
You may find additional service files in the Tide Linux repositories. Some service files will likely need to be modified to run in your distribution