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Finit3-dev | Fast & Extensible init for Linux
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Fast init for Linux
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![Original Finit homepage image](images/finit.jpg "Finit in action!")
Finit3 is currently in heavy development, please use stable releases if
you want a stable and fully functional system. YMMV!
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Introduction
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Init is the first userland process started by the UNIX kernel, therefore
it always has PID 1 and is responsible for starting up the rest of the
system.
Finit is a plugin-based init with [process supervision][1] similar to
that of D.J. Bernstein's [daemontools][2] and Gerrit Pape's [runit][3].
The main focus of Finit is on small and embedded GNU/Linux systems, yet
fully functional on standard server and desktop installations as well.
Traditional [SysV init][4] style systems are scripted. For low-resource
embedded systems this can be quite resource intensive and cause longer
boot times. Finit is optimized to reduce context switches and forking
of processes to provide a very basic bootstrap written entirely in C.
embedded systems this is quite resource intensive and leads to long boot
times. Finit reduces context switches and forking of shell scripts to
provide a system bootstrap written entirely in C.
> Finit basically does everything you need from its `main()` function!
There is no `/etc/init.d/rcS` script, or similar. Instead Finit reads
its configuration from [/etc/finit.conf](#etcfinitconf), which details
kernel modules to load, programs to run, daemons to supervise, and inetd
services to launch on demand.
Hence, there is no `/etc/init.d/rcS` script, or similar, instead Finit
reads its configuration from [/etc/finit.conf](#etcfinitconf). This
file details what kernel modules to load, programs to run, daemons to
supervise, and inetd services to launch on demand.
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TBD: Add conf sample here, early!
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See [TroglOS][9] for an example of how to boot a small embedded system
with Finit.
For an example of a full blown embedded Linux, see [TroglOS][9].
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