Debian switching to upstart

[VinDSL]

I know there are many Debian fans on this forum - whether THEY know it, or not. After all, many popular distros are based on Debian.

Good read...

http://lwn.net/Articles/351013/ (LWN.net article- The future of the boot system in Debian)

LoL!

This is why I love unices (et al) so much - relentlessly moving forward - "Baby steps, baby steps..."

Extra credit reading (if you like this kinda stuff):

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release24/ (DragonFly BSD - 2.4 Release Notes)

DragonFly BSD started out in 2003 as a fork of FreeBSD 4.x. - and six years later this fork is still alive and doing well.

DragonFly BSD is now moving to something called the HAMMER filesystem, which is intended for large storage media. HAMMER can address up to 1-Exabyte of space, but more importantly, the use target is designed for 500G and up - where most of us live these days.

Bottom line: FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD are just going in different directions (technically speaking) and that's good. It's what makes open source work!

 

[n0cmonkey]

EDIT: STUPID USER.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Does upstart simplify the mess that is sysv init?

EDIT: To answer my own question: yes and no. It looks like it will still be a complicated mess that will continue to cause headaches for mortals.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, if anything it'll probably make it worse since you'll have to think about the dependencies. Right now I can just copy /etc/init.d/skeleton, make some minor changes and I'm done.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
EDIT: STUPID USER.

LoL!

How's that Ubuntu Hope n' Change working out for you?