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From: "John Fremlin" <chief@bandits.org>
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 Robert Kaiser <rob@sysgo.de> writes:

> On Die, 06 Feb 2001 you wrote:
> > But paring down the startup scripts is a good idea. For something like an embedded 
> > device, you might even want to go with a custom init, 

Plug: How about jinit (my init) ;-)

        http://www.penguinpowered.com/~vii/programs/linux/jinit
        http://john.snoop.dk/programs/linux/jinit

Boot script time with the supplied example scripts is 12-13 seconds to
login prompt under 2.4 on my old K6-2. Jinit has integrated service
stop/start functionality. Also on the page are links to other source
available inits.

[...]

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