On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> for decades. Fedora 14's init system isn't that different to the first version >> of RHL (4.0) I started using back in 96. >> > This is somewhat misleading. There have been many rewrites of the init > system in the past decade. In fact, the Fedora 14 init system has the > capability to be quite different than the SysVinit scripts that were adopted > in the mid-90s. What is true is that Fedora 14 had not switched to using > the incompatible-with-SysVinit features of its default (or any of its > optional) init systems so the presentation and behaviour was almost the > same as older SysVinit. That's true but due to the way we used it upstart was more or less a renamed sysVinit. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel