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LPC: Upstart 1.0 plans: manifesto for a new init

LPC: Upstart 1.0 plans: manifesto for a new init

Posted Sep 25, 2008 2:22 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
Parent article: LPC: Upstart 1.0 plans: manifesto for a new init

"Upstart is in Fedora as of version 9, making it a welcome example of a Canonical-sponsored project finding its way into other distributions."

Last I heard, Upstart is being developed by Scott is his own time and this was apparently confirmed by him earlier on. Nevertheless the software itself is a useful contribution. Distributions that currently use it are still using the old init scripts under compatibility mode and haven't migrated to new upstart style scripts yet which is probably the important step. We won't see any advantages till then.


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LPC: Upstart 1.0 plans: manifesto for a new init

Posted Sep 25, 2008 14:37 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

... and to add to the confusion, Scott is a Debian developer (and so is Miquel van Smoorenburg).

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