On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 15:10, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastian Plotz 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). >> 2. The LFS user will learn something about old techniques (runlevels) and >> new techniques (event based booting) at the same time. >> 3. Upstart is more modern than Sysvinit (and it is under active >> development). >> 4. Some distributions already use upstart (Ubuntu, Fedora) or will use it >> in future (openSUSE, Debian). > > We just upgraded to sysvinit-2.88dsf which appears to be under active > development. Updated 14-Apr-2010. > > dsf stands for Debian-SuSE-Fedora. > > If you want to prototype Upstart and explain what it offers for an LFS > system, then that will help the discussion a lot. > > Note that if you are concerned about boot speed, my SVN system gets a > bash prompt in about 8 seconds. > > Offering Upstart in BLFS may be an option too.
BLFS sounds like a good place to start. > > -- Bruce -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
