This feels really good to hear, use feedback and success storys are really nice to hear, it makes me wanna continue...
/Jimmy. mån 2006-07-24 klockan 09:52 +0200 skrev Alexandre SIMON: > [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 > > > > > -- > Alexandre SIMON > Cellule Réseau StanNet/Lothaire > > C.I.R.I.L. | Perm. réseau : +33 (0)3.83.68.24.24 > Château du Montet | Tél. direct : +33 (0)3.83.68.24.32 > Rue du Doyen Roubault | Fax : +33 (0)3.83.68.24.01 > F - 54500 VANDOEUVRE | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- _______________________________________________ Initng mailing list [email protected] http://jw.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/initng
