[Ambassadors] f14 to use upstart instead of systemd

Daniel VanStone daniel at dailystruggles.org
Wed Sep 22 13:11:46 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:50 +0200, Jukka Palander wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 07:32 -0500, Daniel VanStone wrote:> Hello Ambassadors,>=
>  > I just thought that other ambassadors may want know this information.>=
>  > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:04:06PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:> > Hi>=
>  > > > As a quick reminder, we might have to update any marketing material>=
>  > regarding systemd> > > >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-14-to-use-Upstart-not-systemd-1079435.html>=
>  > It is from the marketing list.> > DanielI do not get it. This is confusing!Some=
>  of the news say:http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-14-to-use-Upstart-not-systemd-1079435.html"Fedora=
>  14 to use Upstart not systemd" (this headline clearly statesthat it _will_=
>  use the Upstart!!)"The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) has=
>  decided to useUpstart instead of systemd"..and then the text there switch=
>  it "upside down" by saying:"Systemd, an alternative to SysV Init and Upstart,=
>  released in lateApril and used in the alpha of Fedora 14, is now scheduled=
>  to becomepart of the standard system in Fedora 15."...and then again some=
>  say it will use systemd instead than others:http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-pre-release-version-of-Fedora-14-1064587.html"The=
>  most profound change is a behind the scenes switch to systemd, analternative=
>  to sysvinit and upstart released in May. Lately Fedora hasbeen using upstart=
>  to launch the system and services, but has continuedto use sysvinit scripts."So,=
>  systemd or Upstart? Which one????--ambassadors mailing listambassadors at lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
> 
from reading the article it appears that f14 will use upstart and f15
will use systemd.
The 'prerelease' version of f14 used systemd also but I read that it
will not be used in the release.

Daniel




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