does anyone know if there are any plans to replace init with upstart or something similar in Debian like Ubuntu has? The reason I'm asking is that I've managed to get my wireless working via /etc/network/interfaces rather than network-manager-gnome. The only downside to this is that the dhcp server of my wireless router sometimes takes ages to assign an ip address, thereby slowing the whole boot process down.
A simple solution for not slowing the boot process down is adding the following line to your /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug eth0 eth1 eth2 For the init system stuff, check planet.debian.org, someone is blogging there about next-gen init systems (I don't feel like searching now).