Proposals

Early Boot and Init Systems track

This miniconf is focused on the linux init system, improving boot speed, and init infrastructure including systemd, udev, dracut among others.

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Proposals for this track

* Cleaning up the Filesystem Hierarchy

Greatly simplifying, securing, improving our traditional filesystem layout without causing major breakage
Early Boot and Init Systems 05/19/2011
Kay Sievers, Lennart Poettering

* coreboot

lightning fast booting on x86 / x64 platforms
Early Boot and Init Systems 05/20/2011
Stefan Reinauer

* Dracut as a general purpose Bootloader

A proposal for an EFI like boot mechanism with a dracut initramfs and the linux kernel using kexec to boot other linux kernels.
Early Boot and Init Systems 05/19/2011
Harald Hoyer

* Iogrind: I/O Operations Analysis For Improved Application Startup

A new version of Iogrind for I/O analysis, touching kernel internals this time.
Early Boot and Init Systems 07/27/2011
Mihai Maruseac

* Optimizing Firefox: Why Large Applications Start Slowly on Linux

Linker, compiler, runtime linker and the kernel can be improved to start applications significantly faster
Early Boot and Init Systems 08/23/2011
Taras Glek

* systemd: One Year Later

systemd was first announced a year ago and has since become an integral part of various Linux distributions, including Fedora 15.
Early Boot and Init Systems 05/19/2011
Lennart Poettering, Kay Sievers