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Suggestions for Init System Features?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday November 23 2014, @01:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the first-do-no-harm dept.

Subsentient writes:

I am the maintainer of the Epoch Init System, a single threaded Linux init system with non-intrusiveness in mind, and I'm preparing to release 2.0. It's mostly a code cleanup release, but while I'm at it, I thought I'd ask the Soylent community what features they'd like to see. I'm open to all good ideas, but I'm wary of feature creep, so as a result, I won't consider the following:

* multithreaded/parallel services, because that goes against design goals of simplicity and harms customizability
* mounting support or networking support; it's an init system, use busybox if you need a mount command.

So what do soylentils want to see in the next release of the Epoch Init System?

 
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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @02:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @02:07AM (#118999)

    Looks like a nice system for embedded stuff.
    Anyone tried this yet with LFS?

    They are going systemd way and it has me really pissed.

    And thanks for a web page that doesn't burn my retinas or require add ons to view.

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  • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Sunday November 23 2014, @04:42AM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Sunday November 23 2014, @04:42AM (#119035) Homepage Journal

    Well not EXACTLY LFS, but I run a source-built i586+ XFCE distro I call SubLinux. It uses Epoch 1.1.1 "Sirius". That's actually why I started writing Epoch, I wanted an init system that I didn't hate for my new personal distro.

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