ctrl-c during boot != good

[Mark Rosenstand]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 14:34 +0930, n0dalus wrote:
> On 9/24/06, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe those services should get fixed to check for the existence of a
> > network connection before trying to do what they do.  Rather than
> > hacking around dumb apps, we should fix the problem at the source.
> >
> 
> Very true.
> 
> In addition, it would be nice if other services didn't have to wait
> for non-related services to start before they do. I know there have
> been people looking into alternatives to the current init system --
> does anyone know the progress of this?

http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ - also see
http://lists.netsplit.com/pipermail/upstart-devel/2006-September/000065.html for future plans