Why not use Upstart? [LWN.net]

Why not use Upstart?

Posted Jan 11, 2007 16:07 UTC (Thu) by DancingProg (guest, #4816)
Parent article: Looking forward to Fedora 7

Upstart looks really great to me. What am I missing?

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Why not use Upstart?

Posted Jan 11, 2007 16:45 UTC (Thu) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link] (3 responses)

I second this! I am primarily a Fedora user, but I had Ubuntu installed as well, and I have been really impressed by upstart. Not only is the booting speed incredible, but I think the idea of an event based init system is a really great one, and if Fedora were to adopt upstart it would go a long way toward making upstart a standard.

Why not use Upstart?

Posted Jan 11, 2007 16:56 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

If you have Edgy installed, the boot speed, which is quite good, is not due to Upstart at all. Upstart currently uses regular old sysvinit scripts.

What you are observing is the simple steps that Ubuntu has taken to trim the cruft from the sysvinit scripts. The Upstart goodness comes later... perhaps in the next release. Perhaps in the one after that.

Why not use Upstart?

Posted Jan 11, 2007 17:30 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link] (1 responses)

Boy, it sure would be sweet to see an LWN.net article comparing upstart, launchd, and etc.. ;-)

Why not use Upstart?

Posted Jan 15, 2007 9:10 UTC (Mon) by JohnNilsson (guest, #41242) [Link]

Don't miss runit. This is the system I'm most intrigued by, I really like the the djb way of doing things.