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LFSinit - a new beginning

What is LFSinit ?

Init is the first process started on a Linux system. Init's most prominent job is to launch daemons, boot scripts and gettys. LFSinit, which is short for "Lean Flexible Simple init", is an init that is more modular and flexible than other available inits, such as SysVinit. LFSinit allows the creation of boot script systems that are robust and easy to administrate, but it is also possible to use it to boot standard SysVinit setups.

Read more about LFSinit and how it compares to other inits on the info page.

News (05 January 2005)

05 January 2005

The 0.0.0 release is cancelled. It was planned as a preview version that could be used for limited developing and testing of LFSinit personalities. Due to some unfinished components, mainly shutdown, lfsinit-0.0.0 would not have been usable as the actual /sbin/init used for booting. For various reasons I don't consider this release a good idea anymore. So the first LFSinit release will be lfsinit-0.1.0. The Development Roadmap has been modified to reflect this. The planned feature set for 0.1.0 has not changed, nor has its release date ("when it's ready").

08 December 2004

minor revision of the Development Roadmap

07 December 2004

Revived SourceForge project.
Updated Docs page.
Removed Screenshots section.
Removed old LFSinit files from CVS repo.
Removed "CVS" from name of "Download/CVS" section, since LFSinit is no longer developed in SF's CVS repo.

Read older news items on the news page.

Download

The latest LFSinit+examples package is
lfsinit-x.y.z+examples-a.b.tar.bz2 [GPG Signature] [Release Notes]

Older packages can be found on the download page.

Mailing Lists

There are 2 public mailing lists available:

lfsinit-announce is a read-only list that carries announcements of new releases, bugfixes and such.
lfsinit-devel is a list for discussing LFSinit development, support requests and everything else related to LFSinit.