Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com)

Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 15:27 UTC (Thu) by pphaneuf (subscriber, #23480)
In reply to: Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com) by madscientist
Parent article: Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com)

We'll be breaking away from classic "init". Apple already did, a rather gutsy move, but I guess they can manage to pull these kinds of things off. But you can't pull them off too often, otherwise you end up with Unix in the 80's and 90's, things all over the place. Linux brought back things together, I'm not too keen on going back to the way things were...

launchd not only exists, but has been actually deployed for about a year and a half. When the commit to Upstart was done, it had been in use on hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of machines for about a year. And it has a non-crazy license, which seems to be more and more common with Apple (thankfully!). When it comes to pluggable devices, I'd say that if we supported pluggable devices as well as Mac OS X, we'd probably would be doing okay. It's already almost done now, and I've mentioned these things a few months ago, when it was barely started. I worried back then, and I still do now.

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