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Replacing the Aging Init Procedure on Linux
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."
if $OS [] *linux* or $OS [] *nix* then
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Back in my day, young whippersnappers didn't show disrespect to their
elders by talking about replacing them with fancy-pants code. We were
shell scripts and we liked it.
Not Bash scripts either, real life ksh scripts. You hippies and your
bash shell.. why I outta.. ouch, hurt my arm waving it so.
Anywho.. back in the day when we were happy little startup systems
we didn't have to worry about snakes. Python? Who ever heard of that
back then? We has ksh and csh and WE LIKED IT.
Damn granola-crunching kids and their need to improve what don't need
improving.. Stay in school, don't become pot-junkies and enjoy the
blessed rc that nature intended.
It started with all this Rock and/or Roll that you ingrates listen to.
Back in the 70's we rc scripts were appreciated. Then along comes this
electric gee-tar thing getting so popular and that did it.
Dag nabbit... where's my crontab..
where was I? Oh yeah..
Back in my day, young whippersnappers didn't show disrespect to their
elders by talking about replacing them with fancy-pants code. We were
shell scripts and we liked it.
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for god's sake make it so we dont have to log in each time we turn it on.
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
Sue the base shell? Darl, stop posting as AC!
This would all be very offensive if it wasn't true.
Just kidding (of course).
My apologies again. My eyes glazed over a bit when I saw all of the links in the Slashdot article ...
Horseshit. Your eyes glazed over when some guy shot a load of hot cum onto your face. Ischo sounds sorta oriental, so you probably have a big old pan face so it was more than likely several guys to cover all that territory.
Peace.
In related news, Ford has started a project to replace the aging wheel design (3,000 years out of date now) with a new python-transport. With only four of these powerful snakes, every vehicle will be able to slither around more reliabily and across all sorts of terrain forever untraversable by the obsolete and despicible wheel design.
When the Good Lord created the Universe, He created Nature and all the Beatiful Things it contains.
The Good Lord created the Laws of Nature (physics) and of Mathematics
And He saw that they were Good.
Wanting worship and appreciation of His great Works, the Lord created Man.
He created intention, free will and and enquiring mind in this Man.
Aeons passed and Man lived as a child of Nature and God.
Man worshipped God and saw His greatness and the Truth and Beauty that God had created in Nature.
When Time was right, God endowed Man with great Reason, such that Man could comprehend Nature's great Mathematical Beuty.
Lo, man now logical and rational could move out of childhood into adolescence.
In a mere blink of God's mighty eye, Man beheld the Great Truth of Mathematics and studied Creation with great insight and insiration and was propelled forthwith into adulthood.
Man took his first tentative steps onto another cellestial body, and through Mathematics discovered the divine UNIX.
May years passed and Man took UNIX and made it Free as God has intended.
In this UNIX, God had in his great Divine Scheme begat Emacs and init.
The one day Satan came along and tried to ruin it all by replacing init with some rubbish written in Python.
There endeth the lesson for today.
Stick Men
True, but an extra minute or so each day isn't going to make a lot of difference.
It's rare I switch any of my systems off, but when I do, I usually just go make coffee or something when it boots anyway, so...
It's not useless, but I don't think it's particularly worthwhile either.
Was that Yoda speaking?
Well, if GNU is not Unix, isn't the distinction explicit?
"I have a good idea why it's hard to verify programs. They're usually wrong." --Manuel Blum, FOCS 94
People like me who live in earthquake-prone areas turn their computers off when not in use. Much safer for the hard drive.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
So you're saying that the big complicated scheme this story is about could be skipped if the kernel let you play Tetris while it booted?