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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: 2) by epitaxial on Sunday November 23 2014, @05:56AM
I usually power down every night unless something is downloading or the computer is being used. My aging ABIT motherboard has gone flaky and sleep mode only wakes up about 2/3 of the time.
The argument about servers rebooting faster is made by people who have never touched one. Some take a few minutes to even get past the POST. Does shaving 10 seconds off that really matter?
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday November 23 2014, @02:23PM
Suspend to disk.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:10PM
Go talk to your local mom & pop computer shop, we usually have tons of older boards that work well (we're all packrats in this biz and hate throwing working gear away) and most of us will sell you one pretty cheap, especially if you bullshit with us awhile as its nice to be able to talk to someone that knows the lingo instead of the clueless consumers we get all day. Had a guy a couple weeks back come in needing a replacement board because his was getting flaky, after BSing awhile I sold him a C2D board with a 1.86Ghz C2D for $25 since his had the Celery. I bet if you go to your local shop they'll have plenty of boards in the back that will take your hardware and who knows, you may end up with something better than what you had before.
As far as rebooting? Really depends on the use case i suppose. I have some in the field that are slower than Xmas when it comes to booting but that is a side effect of being in a harsh environment where lower heat and lack of fans is more important that speed. Warehouses, construction trailers, these places get seriously nasty and I've found its better to use 5400 RPM drives and slower CPUs with passive heatsinks than to risk it overheating because the grime has blocked up the cooling. You can tell 'em all day long to clean the things but they'll always forget so I can see some situations where shaving some time off boot would be of the good, especially when the physical hardware is slow.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Tuesday November 25 2014, @01:58AM
A friend wanted to experiment with clustering about 14 years ago. We went to a local computer shop and asked for the four slowest computers in the shop. What graphics did we want? None. What sound did we want? None. At this point, the shop owner was gleeful to sell four identical desktops stored out the back of the shop.
I've also had shop assistants jostling to sell me the smallest memory sticks in the shop.
When someone asks for the lowest specification, there's a fleeting opportunity to make a good margin on stuff which may have been hanging around for years.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday November 25 2014, @04:44AM
You will find assholes in every field, luckily there are plenty of shops to go around so if one is filled with assholes go to the next.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.