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."

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Already done

[Tony]

Uhm....

This feature has been available for a long time. If you use gdm, run gdmconfig as root, and in the "general" tab, check the box labeled "Login a user automatically on first bootup", and select a username from the dropdown box.

I'm sure kdm has similar features.