Joachim Wiberg 4596e27eb0 doc: simplify and add some polish to the User Guide
Both the Finit project and Infix use the same MkDocs Material setup, and
in the latter the User Guide has picked up a lot of polish that never
made it back here: a single sidebar with section indexes instead of
tabs, footnote tooltips, more pymdownx markup, image zoom tuning, and no
generator advert in the footer.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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License Badge Release Badge GitHub Status Coverity Status Finit: Fast Init

Finit is a fast, simple alternative to SysV init and systemd, designed for small and embedded Linux systems. It can also run on desktop and server systems, like finix.

Reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit
"gaps filled with frog DNA …"
— Claudio Matsuoka

For detailed information, explore our extensive documentation
📚 http://finit-project.github.io

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For working examples, see the 🚀 contrib/ section or these tutorials:

Note

Finit can run on various Linux distributions, but the bundled install scripts are examples only. They have been tested on amd64 (x86_64) systems with standard configurations.

For embedded systems, see these Buildroot-based examples: myLinux, Infix, or br2-finit-demo.

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