Time for a new Linux

[Byron Sonne]

> Hi Chris, there is an article on "makefile based init" in the IBM 
> developerWorks Sept issue entitled, "Boot Linux faster - 
> Parallelize Linux system services to improve boot speed".  Its
> what you suggest, only the rub is that you have to evaluate the
> task dependencies beforehand.

Yeah, but isn't that the kind of thing that could be 'slow' the first 
time, but lickety-split after the inital run?

For instance, as part of the system install (and after appropriate 
daemon/software installations) a table of all possible dependencies is 
constructed (perhaps as some kind of tree).

This table is then optimized/compiled (and subsequently 
re-optimized/recompiled) into a file of some kind of intermediate 
format. This file is then used by the boot process to drive system 
configuration/behaviour and is represented by the changes that were made.

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