I’m running Edgy with upstart on an Athlon64 3200+ with 512 MB of RAM, and I have a 27 second boot time.

That is, to challenge some of the glaring anachronisms that still plague Linux userland. None of the other heavyweight distributions has ever managed (or cared enough) to do something like this. It will really say something about the level of popularity and acceptance and importance that Ubuntu has reached. If Ubuntu manages to kick the Linux community into upgrading away from the ancient init system they’re using, hats off to them. There’s been serious resistance and inertia to changing it, to the extent that although alternatives exist for some time, none of them really “made it”. It definitely is mature and the lesser of several evils, but we could do much better. The SysV-style init has been in use for decades.

If they do, I definitely see this adopted very fast by the entire Linux community. It will be interesting to see if they can pull this off. Reading the specifications of the new init system, they seem to have really tried to get the absolute best of all possible worlds.

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