On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:59:24 +0100 Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Hi! > > I saw this coming into Debian Sid, so should be available in Devuan > Ceres as well: > > https://troglobit.com/projects/finit/ > > Sounds interesting, I'd say. > > Best, Hi, what scares me is; originally reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit by Claudio Matsuoka from: https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/ Asus eeePC fastinit + derivatives (2007-2015) As part of Asus’s eeePC notebook line around 2007-2008, which had variants preinstalled with a GNU/Linux distribution called Xandros, they wrote a proprietary init(8) replacement entitled fastinit specifically designed for the purpose of… booting really fast, I suppose. So it was proprietary and then reverse engineered....couldn't this lead to licensing problems further down the road? Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
