[Initng] Evaluating initng

[Ismael Luceno]

El Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:04:43 +0100
Christian Metzen <metzench at ccux-linux.de> escribió:

> > 
> > I haven't tried any of them, but I guess whatever you choose you
> > will need a way to tell it the progress, so a new plugin is needed.
> > It should be easy, as it's only a subset of the cpout plugin.
> 
> Well, tells me that it should be possible with that or does it need
> to be altered?

It needs a little modifications, I could do them some weekend, I only
need to get an idea of how to interact with the splash program, but I'm
sure it will not take too much.

> > 
> > You may want to look at the splashout plugin:
> > http://www.initng.org/browser/under_construction/splashout
> > 
> > The code is somewhat old...
> 
> Yes, 3 years, i see. 
> 
> Hoped there would be already something, but all this seems to be
> rather new to distribution defaults. One more thing to think that we
> should have it. But writing a new plugin makes my planning of a new
> release somehow more diffcult.
> 

That one is a splash implementation itself, so it's a lot more complex
compared to what we need to make updates to the status of a splash
daemon.

> >> One more thing is that initng blocks the first console, is it
> >> possible to move it to another one? If not, no problem, users have
> >> to get used to it! :-)
> > 
> > You can use chvt to change the tty, or the quiet_when_up parameter,
> > and start a getty on tty1.
> 
> Ok, perhaps i´ ll try that, for now i really like the idea having it
> on the first console for control issues.
> 
> How stable is the svn trunk? Should it be better to use this one for
> now or do you think waiting for a next release would be the better
> choice?
> 

The svn code is far from a release, and has some bugs, so I think you
should go for the current stable.

BTW, Having distros running the current initng could help to fix our
lack of developers (yeah, I'm lonely :P), so a new release could come
faster...

-- 
Ismael Luceno
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