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Ubuntu's Success Story: the Upstart Startup Manager (LinuxPlanet)
Over at LinuxPlanet, Akkana Peck looks at Upstart, which is rapidly supplanting System V init for many distributions. "Upstart, in contrast, is event based. An 'event' can be something like 'booting' ... or it can be a lot more specific, like 'the network is ready to use now'. You can specify which scripts depend on which events. Anything that isn't waiting for an event can run whenever there's CPU available.
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This event-based system has another advantage: you can theoretically use it even after the system is up and running. Upstart is eventually slated to take over tasks such as or plugging in external devices like thumb drives (currently handled by udev and hal), or running programs at specific times (currently handled by cron)."
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