From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:09:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Litt mer om boot-systemet.
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Litt mer om boot-systemet.
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+Title: systemd, an interesting alternative to upstart
+Tags: english, debian
+Date: 2010-05-13 22:10
+
+<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>
+
+<p>Unfortunately do systemd have the same problem as upstart regarding
+platform support.  It only work on recent Linux kernels, and also need
+some new kernel features enabled to function properly.  This means
+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>