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Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed by kleiba on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:28PM (#9409548)
Care to elaborate (on both, i.e., what's the upstart issue and how a Debian vote relates to it)? It seems I missed all of that, but would be grateful to learn more.
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Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed by notatoad on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:46PM (#9409665)
Ubuntu created upstart around the same time systemd was created, both meant to replace the classic init system. Debian voted to adopt systemd as their new init system instead of upstart, and so now ubuntu, because of it's debian dependencies, will be dropping upstart and moving to systemd as well.
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Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed by rlpb on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:39AM (#9413161)
> Ubuntu created upstart around the same time systemd was created, both meant to replace the classic init system.

Upstart predates systemd by over four years. I just checked the initial release dates on Wikipedia to confirm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart [August 24, 2006]

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd [30 March 2010]

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Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed by kleiba on Monday April 20, 2015 @02:19PM (#9409880)
Ta!
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Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed by tobik on Monday April 20, 2015 @02:00PM (#9409740)
Here is the relevant HN thread with some discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203364
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