Replacing the Aging Init Procedure on Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 2, 2003 @06:33AM from the whats-wrong-with-inittab dept.

SmellsLikeTeenGarlic writes "Seth Nickell (of Storage and Gnome HIG fame) has started a new project which aims to replace the aging Init system on Linux. OSNews has more details on the project, directly from Seth. The new Python-based approach will make booting faster and it will talk to the D-BUS daemon, freedesktop.org's leading project. And speaking of freedesktop.org, it is important to mention the release of HAL 0.1, an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer for KDE, XFce and Gnome, based on a proposal by freedesktop.org's founder Havoc Pennington and being implemented by David Zeuthen. It is innovative projects like Storage, SystemServices and HAL that can bring the kind of integration to the underlying system that current X11 desktop environments lack."

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Good idea by shepd · 2003-10-02 06:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Because of the crappy Sys V init, I use slackware for it's excellent init system.

Why go to all this effort when it's already done for you?

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Re:Why change what isn't broken by the_2nd_coming · 2003-10-02 06:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

because for workstations, the init system sucks.

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