I used to think that Upstart was the wave of the future regarding new init systems.
Boy, was I wrong. Not that upstart is “bad.” Just that there’s something much better.
This actually makes things better instead of just providing the ability to make things better. It involves less shell, and more configuration. Dependencies are automatic, instead of manually specified. The author of the previously linked post goes into great detail regarding the reasoning behind the decisions made. It’s quite a good, albeit long, post.
I think I will have to get this working on my linux box that I intend to build. Possibly even on my laptop, as the features for enabling and disabling bluetooth would be quite advantageous. Also for the wifi and such. It’d be great if when I fired up the bluetooth, it were to start various things, like trying to connect to my mouse, or enabling the obex ftp thing.
As for a server, it’d be really nice to have if I can ever get my fibre channel setup to work. The Xen VMs won’t start until the Fibre Channel drives are available, and then they’ll all start up. Events could be fired depending on when the UPS was online or on battery.
I’m very impressed with it in concept, I’ll have to see how it goes in practice. Oh, and it’s going to be in Fedora 14. Woot.
