[Jimmy Wennlund] wrotes the following on [22/07/2006 23:33]:
> Im not dead!
Yes! we hope so ...
> I have got almost no time to work on this project, and a
> lot of personal stuff in the way.
>
> I plan to take up the work on this project again, but its not the time
> right now.
... and we hope so too !
Let's me present myself : I'm Alexandre SIMON, I'm working in an
University, and we act as an ISP for our Regional Education Network
(Lothaire). We have to manage and monitor networks and systems services,
so we use Linux servers with dedicated applications. For this, we have
build from scratch our own Linux distribution (called Linux-RevD, aka
Linux Reverse Distribution) which includes all (and just) what we need.
Our linux distribution is oriented "performance, stability, high
availability, and simplicity". So after some packages compilations we
ask ourself the problem of init and we try (we think) all tools
available on the net : SysV, runit, minit, cinit, daemond, sysinit,
twsinit, ... nothing really new and "modern", then we found InitNG and
we said that's it !
Of course starting with InitNG (version 0.5.3 if i remember
correctly) was not the perfection and first versions were lacking of
features... but now (running 0.6.7) we still believed that InitNG is a
good replacement of "classic" init system. Today we have about 10 linux
servers in production that are running InitNG, and the next September ~
10 additional servers will play with InitNG.
As we have strong constraints for our production server and services
that was a real challenge to choose InitNG as init process ! But today,
with some months of production we are sure that we did not make a
mistake... InitNG makes all we need and gives our Linux a real "modern"
boot process and very good stability of running services.
So of course, as many (many) people we really hope that InitNG is not
dead and that it will continue to be developed. Today we (and I) have
not enough time to help you in coding but of course we are here
- in the mailing-list
- for testing and running new versions
- for reporting bugs
- ...
- to promote InitNG ;-)
Many thanks for this,
Alex.
> I cant see a reason why people with svn write access cant commit with
> out my help, i have thought this was an opensource community project,
> and i see no reason why it shod not be able to live without my help for
> a little while.
>
> /Jimmy
>
> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 00:42 +1200, Thomas Kear wrote:
>> I spoke briefly with Jimmy around 2 weeks ago, as we have all read on
>> the front page of initng.org, his current occupation is selling
>> icecream, and this being the middle of a northern hemisphere summer
>> could be forgiven for being the busiest time of his year.
>>
>> I have every faith that all is not lost. Time will tell.
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Kear
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> +64211031910
>
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