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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2005-07-13
True on the XGL part, which is why I included compiz, which was also developed by Novell alongside XGL, and adopted by Fedora, but maybe I should have been more specific.
My point about AIGLX is that it was developed in response to XGL. They had talked about it for a long time, but it didn't actually gain traction and substance until Novell took the initiative, for better or worse. XGL was and remains a kludgy solution, even if Novell still refuses to admit it, but at least it got RH moving on it. Sort of like the way Ingo got around to creating a new scheduler only when it appeared that CK's might possibly get adopted. There's a bit of a pattern there, apparently RH is much like MS in that they become aggressively motivated when faced with competition to their choice technologies.
But that's all tangential, the real point was that XGL being developed behind closed doors still benefited the community, which in turn was frankly tangential from the original point of this thread anyways.