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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: 2) by cafebabe on Tuesday November 25 2014, @01:58AM

    by cafebabe (894) on Tuesday November 25 2014, @01:58AM (#119642) Journal

    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

    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

    by Hairyfeet (75) <reversethis-{moc ... {8691tsaebssab}> on Tuesday November 25 2014, @04:44AM (#119692) Journal

    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.

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