Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Feb 2008 23:45 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does not deal well with modern hardware, including hotplug devices, USB hard and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems, Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon. Several other replacements for SysVinit are also available. One of the most prominent, initng, is available for Debian and runs on Ubuntu. Solaris uses SMF and Mac OS uses launchd. Over time, Ubuntu will likely come to incorporate features of each of these systems into Upstart."
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2005-07-07
I'm sorry, when did I miss the big announcement thanking Canonical for developing a piece of technology that Fedora is using? Fedora happened to mention the project that Upstart came from in a couple wiki's. Once it was in the title of the system in a bulleted list, the other time in the URL of a documentation source.
Get over it, projects borrow from each other, and none of them make grand announcements of where they're getting code from. You know what? Nobody cares except people who already know or can figure it out easily enough.