7.0 Goals

[TheOldFellow]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:14:37 -0700
"Dan Nicholson" <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that 6.3 is finally done, I wanted to think about things that
> could be done for the 7.0 release. These are in addition to the normal
> updates/bug fixes/etc.
<snip>
> * LSB bootscripts - I'd like to shed the current custom bootscripts
> and move to the standardized LSB style. The advantages (to me) are
> standardization, removal of crufty custom functions and entry points
> in our current implementation, and managed service levels
> (dependencies in the script header mean you don't have to guess run
> numbers).
<snip>

Just remember that there are a few of us who don't use sysvinit, and
don't want complex bad-standard (LSB) bootscripts.  I want my system
up, fast, accepting login, and then all the other cruft (networking
for instance) can start while I'm typing my secure password :)

R.