[ Thanks to Rudd-O
for this link. ]
“Upstart solves this by reacting to system-level events–and
that’s what it is, an event-based init service. Since Upstart
breaks backwards compatibility (at least for the time being),
Upstart is also the perfect spot to test another sorely required
innovation: parallelism; with parallel startup, services and states
can be started and achieved much faster than sequentially, for a
number of reasons which basically boil down to taking advantage of
the hardware at its fullest.“Naturally, I’m curious. So I decided to interview Scott James
Remnant (by e-mail), he who appears as the lead Upstart
developer…”
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Linux.com:
Replacing init with Upstart(Oct 06, 2006)