On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:19:03AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > 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. > Which is what I said in my last sentence, yes? ;-) I wanted to clarify that there have been a lot of new, rewritten init systems in the Linux ecosystem in the past decade, including upstart. It's just the Fedora default init system that's been an old fuddy-duddy about adopting any of the rewritten-requiring features until now. -Toshio
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