Interview with Scott, Ubuntu and Upstart developer
The Linux distribution that took the world by storm, Ubuntu, is not only one of the most usable, but it has innovations of its own. One of the most distinguishable innovations in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is Upstart, a software package that, in all likelihood, will end up as the replacement for the venerable SysVinit and other Linux initialization systems.
But “why replace init?”, you might be asking? The answer is dynamism. Modern Linux distributions have lots of usage scenarios, and most of those scenarios require a dynamic operating system; what the operating system does depending on context and role is very important in terms of usability, and the startup process is no alien to this fact.
Today’s Linux distributions have lots of behavior hard-coded in their startup scripts. Furthermore, some network services provided by those Linux distributions depend on other services or system states. Say, for example, that you want to serve files through SAMBA — it wouldn’t make sense to start SAMBA if the network interfaces aren’t set up, right?
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