David Paleino wrote:
Firstly, it's not obsolete, since we only have sysvinit available (if we had upstart, or something similar to initng, I could've agreed here -- and upstart in Debian is way more experimental than initng).
I doubt you can back up this claim. My experiences with both initng and upstart have taught me the opposite. upstart was way more reliable and mature.
One reason is, that the current version of upstart in experimental still uses the sysv init scripts. This is by design though, so you can have a smooth transition.
initng doesn't offer something similar.With initng you have to replace everything and reconfigure your complete boot system (I know that there is a tool in initng which tries to guess which services to use and activates those ifiles, which is fragile at best).
The reason why upstart is in experimental is different (unresolved issue about sysvinit being essential and upstart conflicting with it).
But claiming that initng was more mature than upstart (or upstart way more experimental) is FUD, sorry.
Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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