Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> writes: > While doing some research, I found this Wikipedia article [1] discussing > their Linux/BSD (Depending on the rev) based operating system. The short > description of the "xpand" daemon sounded > interesting -- and I was curious. Are there any other projects out there to > replace /etc with a data/metabase, and provide a legacy /etc emulation > layer? While adding some "registry" like > wizardry to Linux would probably ignore some furor, having built in > versioning, changelogs, and other "cool stuff" that such an abstraction would > provide sounds interesting.
This reminds me of gconf, a bit. gconf is more focused on user-level ~/.application_settings -type content than /etc/, but similar. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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