Upstart (init.d replacement) Re: New distro question

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 22:37:37 EDT 2008


> > > init-replacement thing in the FOSS world.  I forget the name.  It's
> > Upstart? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
> > Ubuntu started using it in 6.10
> I'm running 7.04 on my laptop and still see /etc/init.d.  Maybe it's 7.10?

You're both right - it shipped with Ubuntu 6.10 or so but init.d isn't
fully deprecated for a couple cycles so upgrades will work and they
don't have to break all packages at once, so init.d will continue to
work for now too..

-- 
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com


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