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+# Vigil 
+Vigil is an init system (PID 1) developed for the Antrhill distribution and licensed under GPL2.0-only.
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+The development is based on the Unix philosophy:
+- **"Make each program do one thing well."**
+    - Doug McIlroy
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+- **"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together."**
+    - Peter H. Salus, summarizing Unix philosophy
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+- **"The UNIX system is characterized by: [...] A unified view of I/O, and a hierarchical file system. A small number of kernel primitives, augmented by a rich set of user-level tools."**
+    - Ritchie & Thompson, «The UNIX Time-Sharing System»
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+`vegil` strives to be indestructible, something that even in the case of most errors will boot you into the system. If not, then go to rescue mode with all the tools installed.
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+# Development
+This repo contains the source code of the `init` executable itself and `vegilctl`, for managing the initialization system.
+At the moment, the init binary itself is a priority for development.
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