[Beowulf] A press release

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Sat Jul 5 03:34:52 PDT 2008


----- "Mark Hahn" <hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> >> I was hoping for some discussion of concrete issues.  for
> instance,
> >> I have the impression debian uses something other than sysvinit -
> >> does that work out well?
> >>
> > Debian uses standard sysvinit-style scripts in /etc/init.d,
> /etc/rc0.d, ...
> 
> thanks.  I guess I was assuming that mainstream debian was like
> ubuntu.

Fedora has also adopted Upstart, and given that RHEL
is said to be based off Fedora it'll be interesting to
see whether this gets adopted there too..

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart

cheers,
Chris
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