http://www.osnews.com/story/16670/Freespire_2_0_Alpha_2_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:35:37 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?189818 http://osnews.com/thread?189818 This is actually somewhat big news that freespire is adopting Ubuntu's upstart:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/

If Canonical keeps up the great work and continues improving upstart, we might have a true SysV init replacement. It would be interesting to see if Fedora is considering using upstart also. Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SEJeff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189914 http://osnews.com/thread?189914 Goodbye and good riddance, SysV init!! Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sb56637) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189994 http://osnews.com/thread?189994 Cool! I wasn't going to download the alphas, but now I think I am upon that news. One major turnoff for me in using Linspire/Freespire (and Xandros and Suse and others) was the loooong boot time compared to Windows, Solaris and smaller distros like Zen. Ubuntu 6.10 was very refreshing in this regard for a mainstream distro. Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jimveta) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?190044 http://osnews.com/thread?190044 openLinspire doesn't appear to be generating a great deal of community interest, despite being listed on distrowatch and articled here, it has generated a grand total of three comments in the 24+ hours since the article was posted. Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (REMF) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?190204 http://osnews.com/thread?190204 I hate to add a comment to this attention lacking thread...but...

My boot time is still like 1:46 seconds, it is better but not amazing IMO. Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?190242 http://osnews.com/thread?190242 I can't wait to play with this one. Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JPisini) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?190500 http://osnews.com/thread?190500 I am glad to see them finally start to do things a bit more "normal" lets hope it continues. Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments