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Replacing the Aging Init Procedure on Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. The new init procedure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    if $OS [] *linux* or $OS [] *nix* then
    repeat
    SCO.account = SCO.account + yourbankaccount
    until bankvault = empty
    end if

  2. Please don't replace me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    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.
    .
    .
    .

    1. Re:Please don't replace me. by red+floyd · · Score: 2, Funny

      You had a shell? We had to type things into the ROM monitor!

      --
      The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
  3. login by panxerox · · Score: 2, Funny

    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
  4. Re:Why ? by dcgaber · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sue the base shell? Darl, stop posting as AC!

  5. Re:RTFA by Bryan+Ischo · · Score: 2, Funny

    This would all be very offensive if it wasn't true.

    Just kidding (of course).

  6. Re:Thought we would overlook your mistakes? by tigga · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was that Yoda speaking?

  7. Re:Doh. by AME · · Score: 2, Funny
    GNU-specific rather than UNIX-specific (I hope everyone can see this distinction)

    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
  8. Re:Cool by MsGeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.
  9. Better init Replacement by Vagary · · Score: 2, Funny

    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?