[nylug-talk] ubuntu looking to replace init

[Ron Guerin]

mylar wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:33, Peter C. Norton wrote:
>> It looks like the ubuntu team will be replacing init with a program
>> they're calling upstart.
>>
>> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/535

> Hmmm... This does look like a step in the right direction. Not  to say
> that init was bad, it had it's time and place and still gets things
> going.  What I'm wondering is that if this works out well will  it
> become standard across most distros ? Or will it be one of those things
> where every distro winds up using something else.

Getting it in the LSB would spread it.  Ditto for anything else.

- Ron