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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2005-10-13
Canonical's "solution", Upstart, is just too pie in the sky for my tastes.
I didn't think much of it either, at first, but the more I hear about it the more I think it might actually have a shot at being widely adopted. It's the first one being backed by a major distro, and more importantly it is backwards compatible.
I rather like Pardus, although it is nothing new or revolutionary. It will never be widely used, though.