The last few days a new boot system called +systemd +has been +introduced + +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 +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 +in the process 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.
+ +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.
+ +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.
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