On Feb 3, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: have been looking into the issue of upstart. From:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. and is therein listed as: Known Users Ubuntu 6.10 and later Fedora 9 and later This is wrong. Fedora 15 and up uses systemd. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd with compatibly for SysV stuff present. Fedora is pushing hard to convert everything to systemd for Fedora17 and they did for 16 as well. One can assume form that RHEL7 will land with systemd. Steve. Debian (as an option) Nokia's Maemo platform Palm's WebOS Google's Chromium OS Google's Chrome OS
