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Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:35 pm**

I read this article on starting up services in parallel and possibly decreasing the time it takes to boot linux. Have a read
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/l ... -boot.html

Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:37 pm**

erm...yes

here

I got a total of zero responses to the article. This site must be populated by a bunch of server operators. Not a laptop amongst them.

My question is this. Isn't there an attempt to rewrite/revamp/replace the whole init part of linux? In theory making startup times much faster.

It seems strange we have IBM on one hand producing articles speeding up Linux start times, and then guys from Sun saying that we may have to wait 2 days for a system to boot-up (an article on OSnews some months ago with some Sun OS hotshot).

Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:28 pm**

heh

.. well my thread is more popular!

I havent heard anything about anyone redoing the entire startup sequence, but i havent looked.

You must remember of course that there is not only one system. Slackware doesnt use the same startup as redhat does.
Redhats is.. SysV (?) and i cant remember what the other is called.

Posted: **Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:43 pm**

Master of Reality wrote:Redhats is.. SysV (?) and i cant remember what the other is called.

BSD style.

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:40 am**

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4711

This guy wants to build a new system to replace init (he wants it backwards compatable) and is obviously thinking in terms of desktop usage.

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:58 am**

this guys ideas are... "interesting". And i think he is a bit of a fool.

...Im really concerned if most sysadmins dont know what runlevels are.

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:53 pm**

some sysadmins don't know what uptime is...

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:58 pm**

*some*... but im sure it isnt most

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:18 pm**

M$ system admins don't know what uptime is, so maybe "most" is appropriate. :) Of course I don't have the best of uptime on this site when I upgrade the kernel every week (testing 2.6).

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 8:14 pm**

good grief, lol, argh... if we're talking about linux init then it would be linux sysadmins ARGH!! :twisted:

Posted: **Tue Nov 04, 2003 8:16 pm**

Oh, we're talking about Linux init? Sorry about that, guess I got off topic. :)
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Posted: **Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:59 am**

I've been upgrading my 2.6 kernel on slack every day lol, terrific uptimes.

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