Oh indeed the ubuntu packages are another brilliant edition to a brilliant project! Been so enthusiastic about systemd since your talk @ linuxtag :D
Indeed it could be possible that they see the benefits of a well developed and well designed alternative to upstart in the future and adopt :P Paul Michael McDonough -- Aurora Webmaster / Developer http://getaurora.com On 25 October 2010 22:06, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 25.10.10 21:22, Paul McDonough ([email protected]) wrote: > > > I don't think Ubuntu will adopt Systemd as it means them dropping their > own > > upstart which is unlikely. > > Well, things change. And there are rumours that this move might be much > more likely than people might think. They have made abundantly clear by > now that they are not interested in doing development of the Linux OS > proper, but focus on the icing and polishing. That kinda indicates that > they might be open to switch sooner or later, since they don't consider > development of Upstart at the focus of what they do. I think they are > smart enough to realize that after having forked GNOME they'll have a > hard time spending enough resources on continuing to develop Upstart > too, if everybody else goes a different way. But anyway, while it is fun > speculating what they might eventually do, it's kinda pointless spending > too much time on that. > > In the meantime I think it is a good idea to make it easy for them to > adopt systemd eventually, and hence I welcome the Ubuntu patches very > much. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. >
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