Debian switching to upstart

A recent debian-devel-announce posting describes in detail the problems faced by the current Debian boot system and what is being done to fix them. "Over the last few years, the boot system in Debian has progressively deteriorated due to changes in the Linux kernel which make the kernel more and more event based. For example, the kernel and its drivers no longer block all processing while detecting disks, network interfaces and other hardware, making the once trusty old boot system in Debian increasingly fragile." The solution is dependency-based init script sequencing (well in progress) and an upcoming switch to upstart.

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