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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Member since:2006-01-01
No, I don't know any release goals for Lenny+1. I was just speculating.
Debian's new automatic init script generation infrastructure, called metainit, seems to be designed to make package migration as easy as possible between Debian (with sysvinit scripts) and Ubuntu (with upstart jobs). It will also make much easier for Debian to switch from sysv to upstart in the future, if upstart proves out to be good.
http://wiki.debian.org/MetaInit
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2005-11-02
As a Debian user and fan I find that interesting. Do you have linkage?
I personally would not predict or expect upstart by default in Debian for quite some time, given how stodgy Debian tends to be. As an installable option, though, like initng is now, I like the idea.