[NTLUG:Discuss] Startup system types

[Ralph Green]

On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 08:55 -0500, Wayne Walker wrote:
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
>   Look on the right side.
> I didn't check for any other distros, just the main 4.
> 
Howdy,
  I liked the way Ubuntu introduced upstart.  For the first couple of
releases, it used the old init scripts.  That let it get a little more
real world testing, before they started pushing new capabilities.

 A big change like this can introduce problems.  Lots of tools ship with
init scripts and those now have to be changed.

 It may not be a big deal, but I like how much faster Ubuntu 10.04
boots.  It really matters when I am patching and rebooting one of my
virtualbox servers.  There, I have to patch and shutdown a bunch of
virtual machines before patching and rebooting the server and then
restarting the virtual machines.  It seems a lot faster these days.
This matters because I do it more often than I'd like.  I don't know the
root cause, but it seems like every few days a kernel patch comes in and
I need to reboot everything.  I jokingly refer to it as the Ubuntu war
on uptime.  I remember in times past when I used to go months without
rebooting.  I don't think I ever made it to years, but some people did.
Good day,
Ralph