On 7/6/2010 2:09 PM, Robert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 13:50, Sebastian Plotz<[email protected]> 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). > > But that requires SysVinit tools. > >> 2. The LFS user will learn something about old techniques (runlevels) and >> new techniques (event based booting) at the same time. > > True, but not much. > >> 3. Upstart is more modern than Sysvinit (and it is under active >> development). > > Can we keep up? > >> 4. Some distributions already use upstart (Ubuntu, Fedora) or will use it >> in future (openSUSE, Debian). >> >> What are you thinking about that? >> > > Sounds nice, but maybe wait?
And note that Fedora is actually replacing _upstart_ with something else, systemd: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd Kevin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
