Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Oct 2006 20:28 UTC, submitted by Görkem Çetin
"For a long time, Linux has been blamed to boot slowly, compared to other modern operating systems. In this article, we are going to focus on a new init system we developed for our Pardus Linux distribution, Mudur, together with other initiatives that are worth mentioning. Mudur is written from scratch in Python with simplicity, speed and maintainability in mind. It isn't a replacement for the /sbin/init command like some other alternatives, nor just a parallel script executor. Mudur greatly simplified our boot process, making it faster and more flexible. Authors look forward for future boot process research for further improvement and optimizations."
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"""Well, they did get boot time down to 17 seconds, which is comparable to what systems like InitNG often get."""
Well, none of ther other 15 sys5init replacements has ever taken off and gotten used to any great degree.
The solution is obvious: Bake up another one.
We do need *something* better than sys5init.
But unless they have something really compelling, like this is not, it's just another voice in the cacophony.
Canonical's "solution", Upstart, is just too pie in the sky for my tastes. So much of what they are trying to do would be a "solution in search of a problem"... except that their solution to the elusive problem doesn't exist yet and won't for a good while.
initng always seemed like a good solution to the real problem to me. We need a parallelized boot process. It's not like SCO Openserver has not had parallelized boot for *10 years now*! If SCO can do it...
There's no need to finish that last sentence, I hope.