How does Ubuntu's Upstart system initialization compare with runit?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 17, 2009 3:47 AM EDT
Tech Republic; By Vincent Danen
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When I was working on the Annvix project, I was fascinated with how the system booted and services were started. This led to an eventual rewrite of initialization scripts and the use of runit instead of the traditional SysV init. The results were fantastic: a fast booting system with services starting in parallel and a series of scripts to start and stop the system with a small footprint and amazing speed.

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