Title: systemd, an interesting alternative to upstart
-Tags: english, debian
-Date: 2010-05-13 22:10
+Tags: english, debian, nuug, bootsystem
+Date: 2010-05-13 22:20
<p>The last few days a new boot system called
<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd">systemd</a>
has been
-<a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">introduced</a>.
-I have not yet had time to play around with it, but it seem to be a
-very interesting alternative to upstart, and might prove to be a good
-alternative for Debian when we are able to switch to an event based
-boot system. Tollef is <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/580814">in the
-process</a> of getting systemd into Debian, and I look forward to
-seeing how well it work.</p>
+<a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">introduced</a>
+
+to the free software world. I have not yet had time to play around
+with it, but it seem to be a very interesting alternative to
+<a href="http://upstart.ubuntu.com/">upstart</a>, and might prove to be
+a good alternative for Debian when we are able to switch to an event
+based boot system. Tollef is
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/580814">in the process</a> of getting
+systemd into Debian, and I look forward to seeing how well it work. I
+like the fact that systemd handles init.d scripts with dependency
+information natively, allowing them to run in parallel where upstart
+at the moment do not.</p>
<p>Unfortunately do systemd have the same problem as upstart regarding
platform support. It only work on recent Linux kernels, and also need
system. Not sure how that will be handled if systemd proves to be the
way forward.</p>
-<p>In the mean time, based on the input on debian-devel@ regarding
-parallel booting in Debian, I have decided to enable full parallel
-booting as the default in Debian as soon as possible (probably this
-weekend or early next week), to see if there are any remaining serious
-bugs in the init.d dependencies. A new version of the sysvinit
-package implementing this change is already in experimental. If all
-go well, Squeeze will be released with parallel booting enabled by
-default.</p>
+<p>In the mean time, based on the
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
+on debian-devel@</a> regarding parallel booting in Debian, I have
+decided to enable full parallel booting as the default in Debian as
+soon as possible (probably this weekend or early next week), to see if
+there are any remaining serious bugs in the init.d dependencies. A
+new version of the sysvinit package implementing this change is
+already in experimental. If all go well, Squeeze will be released
+with parallel booting enabled by default.</p>