New distro question

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Apr 9 11:26:08 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:05 -0400, Shawn O'Shea wrote:
> 
>         
>          There's some other new dependency-based service manager
>         init-replacement thing in the FOSS world.  I forget the name.
>          It's
>         packaged as an option in Debian (of course).  It looked
>         appealing, but
>         I didn't care enough to try it.
> 
> Upstart? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ 
> 
> Ubuntu started using it in 6.10

Its also being used in Fedora 9, albeit with some stuff cobbled together
for sysvinit compatibility.



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