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 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
@@ -20,11 +25,12 @@ kFreeBSD and Hurd ports of Debian will need a port or a different boot
 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>