[TriLUG] RH 8.0 and kernel 2.4.20

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:59, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> Red Hat Linux 8.0, like most sane Linux distributions, uses rc.* scripts
> to start the system after init is kicked off. The rc.sysinit script
> assumes that all the USB devices are modular, and loads them manually
> (since they don't get put into the initrd).

That begs an interesting question.  Are there any linux distributions
out there that do *not* use rc.* scripts to start the system after
init is kicked off.  If there are, why did they make the choice they
did?

Cheers,
Tanner
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