Releasing 1.02 and 1.1-pre1.

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:35, David Seikel wrote:
> Most of the actual init scripts I have seen are just thin sh wrappers
> around startproc and friends.  Not a lot in them that is worth changing.

We have init and we have initd, both of which are designed to launch things 
(and re-lanch them).  If somebody wanted to extend this infrastructure I can 
see that might be useful, but pointing me to a web page that has a heap of 
infrastructure with no real explanation of the rationale (and one of the 
dumbest frames-based designs I've ever seen: why does it split the screen in 
half?)

Can't say I read much further.

> When it comes down to it though, I wrote urunlevel because I have seen
> modern day linuxs become as slow and bloated as Windows, and I don't
> like it.  My Athlon 3000+ boots the latest version of SuSE Linux in 3
> minutes, but boots My Linux (based on urunlevel) in 12 seconds.  One of
> my methods used to speed that up is to remove all but the most
> trivial of sh scripts from the boot process.

I admit that most modern Linux distros are bloated and that a lot of their 
infrastructure is deeply crappy and wasteful, but that's a side issue.  You 
can bloat C just as easily.

> I take it your response was a quick nay then?

Just that I personally haven't seen anything to spark my interest yet.

Rob