has anyone used

initNG?
apparently it reduces boot times to bash login significantly, by running all boot sequences asynchronously.

http://initng.thinktux.net/index.php/Main_Page

if so, what did you think about it?
[ i’m going to build my utf-8 only charset lfs system with it over the next three days.
( got a new system to play with..so going to make it only use utf-8 encoding in everything. ) ]