ReplacementInitDiscussion

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You may wish to talk with Mandriva people about "[http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-10/msg00256.php prcsys/pinit]". It is not as powerful as initng, however, it is not such agdgressive change and it may even go into Dapper and definitely into Dapper+1.


 '''Look at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit.'''

 Why not work with Red Hat on a new init system? They have the same goals as we do.
 -- PeterVanderKlippe [[DateTime(2006-04-19T17:27:47Z)]]

Summary

Discuss replacing the tried, trusted and terrible sysvinit with something a little more flashy such as initng or launchd.

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

You may wish to talk with Mandriva people about "[http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-10/msg00256.php prcsys/pinit]". It is not as powerful as initng, however, it is not such agdgressive change and it may even go into Dapper and definitely into Dapper+1.

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

ReplacementInitDiscussion (last edited 2010-05-24 13:24:51 by nat7)