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 time, its initscript runs which does what is needed to start the service. When a service’s reference count becomes 0 (meaning it is not wanted or needed anymore) its initscript runs again to stop the service (kill its processes, do cleanup etc. depending on the service).

The `start’ command can take multiple arguments. When `start’ exits, either ALL the named services will be started successfuly or NONE will be referenced (as if `start’ had not run). However, the `stop’ command will not wait and will always succeed.

What’s New in This Release:

· Man pages were written.
· myinit was tested with dietlibc and a correction was made.

Here are some key features of “GAG”:

· Allows boot of up to 9 different operating systems.
· It can boot operating systems installed in primary and extended partitions on any available hard disk.
· Can be installed from nearly all operating systems.
· GAG doesn’t need its own partition. It installs itself in the first track of the hard disk, wich is reserved for these kinds of programs. It can also be instaled on a floppy disk, without using the hard disk.
· It has a timer to boot a default operating system (selectable by the user).
· The configuration menu can be protected with a password.
· The program works in graphic mode (needs a VGA or better graphic card), and has a lot of icons.
· Hides the primary partitions which allows the user to have instaled more than one DOS and/or Windows in the same hard disk.
· Allows a password to be put on each operating system, denying access to non-authorized people.
· Allows the boot manager text to be translated to all languages.
· Can exchange disk drives, allowing to boot from the second, third… hard disk operating systems such as MS-DOS.
· Has the SafeBoot system, that allows to boot your hard disk even if GAG is accidentally overwrited.
· Supports a great variety of keyboards (QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ and DVORAK keyboards).
· Fully support for hard disks up to 4 terabytes (4096 gigabytes).
· Full version and free software (distributed under GPL licence, with source code)

What’s New in This Release:

· 4.8 didn’t remember the keyboard type after installing which, in certain situations, prevented you from reconfiguring it from the Setup menu.

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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 of in-place decompression.
· safe: you can list, test and unpack your executables. Also, a checksum of both the compressed and uncompressed file is maintained internally.
· universal: UPX can pack a number of executable formats:
· atari/tos
· djgpp2/coff
· dos/com
· dos/exe
· dos/sys
· linux/386
· rtm32/pe
· tmt/adam
· watcom/le (supporting DOS4G, PMODE/W, DOS32a and CauseWay)
· win32/pe
· portable: UPX is written in portable endian-neutral C++
· extendable: because of the class layout it’s very easy to add new executable formats or new compression algorithms
· free: UPX is distributed with full source code under the GNU General Public License, and may be used freely even with commercial programs.

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What’s New in This Release:

· Many updates and bugfixes were made.

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What’s New in This Release:

· Netbooting on pSeries, pxelinux-style netbooting, user-specified config files, iSCSI support, and bootonce functionality.

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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 drop to emergency shell if the root volume cannot be mounted. Why not even start sshd and allow admin login if the box is in a remote location?

Here are some key features of “BootUtils”:

· Automatic detection of root volume by label or explicit kernel commandline option
· Supports ext2, ext3, jfs, reiserfs and xfs
· Emergency shell dropping in the case of a root volume problem

What’s New in This Release:

· This release adds a raidscan tool that initiates the kernel’s software raid auto-detect functionality.
· It adds some verbosity to switchroot.

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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 time permits.

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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 system’s uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks ecessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.

What’s New in This Release:

· The runit program, process number 1, has been fixed to reap dead processes that re-parented to process number 1 (zombies) more thoroughly.
· Instructions on how to use runit with upstart as an init scheme have been added, svlogd has been changed to use a new source port for each log message sent through UDP, and this release includes a build fix for AIX.

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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), and -p (get pid) to cmd.
· The namemspace in msgq.h has been cleaned up.
· A global service lock has been added. svc.h has been split into svc.h, svc-intern.h, and svc-messages.h.
· A logic splitoff from cinit_ipc_listen() has been prepared.
· fork() had a general race condition (see src/test/fork-latency.c) through the use of global lock; this has been fixed.

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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 to enable manually were cut.
· Special goodies include automatic module unloading (if enabled separately) and reworked module specs.

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