On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 15:10, Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote:


> So while the current versions of Debian and RHEL (and its derivatives
> like CentOS) still pack init scripts into /etc/init.d/, bleeding-edge
> distributions like Fedora are starting to use "systemd," one post-SysV
> implementation:
>
>  * http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
>  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
>
> A project with similar goals is called Upstart, but my reading of the
> literature suggests that systemd has a greater likelihood of future
> success than Upstart.

Well, to be fair, upstart is already in use in ubuntu and has been for
over 5 years, so it's got pretty wide adoption (you can also still use
sysv scripts there but they are mostly deprecated).  However I agree
that systemd is the future.


> It'll probably be a couple years before any of the distributions
> marketed at the entrerprise ship with systemd as the default init
> system, but I'd suggest gaining at least a reasonable level of
> familiarity with it during your Quest for Learning(TM).

+1
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