On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Sebastian Plotz <sebastian-pl...@web.de> wrote: > I just want to start a discussion, if it would be meaningful to replace > Sysvinit with Upstart ... > > Here are some points for discussion: > > 1. The bootscripts can still be used (like Ubuntu did). > 2. The LFS user will learn something about old techniques (runlevels) and > new techniques (event based booting) at the same time. > 3. Upstart is more modern than Sysvinit (and it is under active > development). > 4. Some distributions already use upstart (Ubuntu, Fedora) or will use it > in future (openSUSE, Debian). > > What are you thinking about that? > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Fedora is dropping upstart for systemd. openSUSE is waiting on FC14 and how well systemd works before proceeding with upstart/systemd. There's also a ITP for systemd in Debian, and who knows where that might go. Systemd seamlessly supports SysVinit scripts and new event based scripts. Fedora Commentary: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd Systemd Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
