Re:Runit – a Unix init scheme with service supervision
by JoshTriplett on Saturday August 15, 2015 @11:54AM
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> The Upstart thing is just somewhat odd, because it's a Canonical project, and Ubuntu is also Canonical's.
That's why they pushed so hard for Debian to use Upstart. Once Debian switched to systemd instead, Canonical announced that they would too.
> The shop I'm in was already using Ubuntu when I came on, but maybe the lesson here is to migrate to Debian, rather than bother upgrading to the newer Ubuntu release.
I'd certainly recommend that myself. Unless you have a hard requirement for an "Enterprise" distribution (RHEL or SLES), I tend to advocate Debian stable rather than Ubuntu LTS, especially on a server.
That's why they pushed so hard for Debian to use Upstart. Once Debian switched to systemd instead, Canonical announced that they would too.
> The shop I'm in was already using Ubuntu when I came on, but maybe the lesson here is to migrate to Debian, rather than bother upgrading to the newer Ubuntu release.
I'd certainly recommend that myself. Unless you have a hard requirement for an "Enterprise" distribution (RHEL or SLES), I tend to advocate Debian stable rather than Ubuntu LTS, especially on a server.