myinit is a simple “init” program with parallel execution and dependencies via reference counting (by way of “start” and “stop” commands).
The `start’ command will `reference’ a service (add 1 to its reference count) and the `stop’ command will `dereference’ a service (subtract 1 from its reference count). When a service is referenced for the first [...]
GAG (initials, in spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. GAG’s loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use.
Here are some key features of “GAG”:
· Allows boot of up to 9 different operating systems.
· It can boot operating systems installed in [...]
UPX is a versatile executable packer.
Here are some key features of “UPX”:
· excellent compression ratio: typically compresses better than WinZip/zip/gzip, use UPX to decrease the size of your distribution !
· very fast decompression: ~10 MB/sec on an ancient Pentium 133, ~200 MB/sec on an Athlon XP 2000+.
· no memory overhead for your compressed executables because [...]
boot-dvd project contains a couple of Perl-scripts that can be used to create a custom DVD-ISO image (to be burned), that contains user selected Linux boot/live-CD images (only ISOLINUX boot loader supported) in a handy GRUB menu.
What’s New in This Release:
· Many updates and bugfixes were made.
Sources mirror 1 (tgz)
Yaboot project is a bootloader (like lilo or grub) for PPC machines. It is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines.
What’s New in This Release:
· Netbooting on pSeries, pxelinux-style netbooting, user-specified config files, iSCSI support, and bootonce functionality.
Sources mirror 1 (tar.gz)
BootUtils project is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome.
The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel command line, mounting it and ’switchroot’ing is automated.
BootUtils can also [...]
Fritz!WRT project is a port of the OpenWRT router firmware to the FRITZ!Box 7170 which originally runs a kernel with binary blobs.
Revision 8520 of the OpenWRT trunk with the patches below was used to get OpenWRT running.
Basically everything except the WLAN and ISDN works.
I hope to iron out those issues in the next months, as [...]
runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision; a replacement for sysvinit and other init schemes.
runit project runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, snf Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system’s one-time initialization tasks.
Stage 2 starts the [...]
cinit is a fast executing, small and simple init with support for profiles.
And it has a simple configuration, which makes many shell-scripts unecessary (but you still could use them if you really want), which leads to better performance and less memory using.
What’s New in This Release:
· This release adds -V (get cmd version), -h (help), [...]
eINIT is a replacement for the long standard sysvinit. The project aims to be yet one of the fastest and most configurable init systems around.
Building/Installing eINIT
./configure [ --prefix=/some/prefix/or/another ]
make install
What’s New in This Release:
· This release reworks some of eINIT’s internals.
· Among other things, this means that a lot of the services you’d normally need [...]