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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Interpreter FUD by Soong · 2003-10-02 06:38 · Score: 1, Troll

Keep Python interpreters out of my system guts!

System code should only be written in C!

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W-T-F by blunte · 2003-10-02 07:23 · Score: 1, Troll

Ok, obviously the poster doesn't speak English as their first language, so no complaints about the odd word choices.

But most languages I've seen make at least some use of linebreaks and paragraph breaks...

Geez.

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