[maemo-developers] Upstart vs. sysvinit (roadmap)

[From: Mika Yrjölä]

2009/1/27 Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> ext Tor wrote:

>> Is there a very compelling reason to move away from something as
>> standard as sysvinit? I haven't even heard about "Upstart".
>
> Ubuntu has had Upstart since 2006:
>        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit
>
> And started using it in Feisty (i.e. two years ago):
>        http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/upstart
>
> In Debian it's only in experimental:
>        http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/upstart

Of the other major distributions, I'm under the impression that at
least Fedora is also using Upstart these days, so whether moving to US
is a good or a bad thing (I won't take sides on that :), it's
definitely not a marginal phenomena anymore.