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Title: Idea: upstart (Discussion)
Post by: emergentx43 on 29 August 2025, 09:59:35
Greetings, and thanks everyone for the ongoing development, support, and usage of Artix!

I've had the thought for a year or two now, of whether one could compile upstart, and set up a system with the usual sysvinit scripts orchestrated by upstart these days. More or less like Ubuntu ca. 12 years ago. I have a feeling converting most init scripts back to sysvinit wouldn't be too big a deal (or perhaps fetching them from archived packages), and compilation of upstart shouldn't be any trouble.

I'm looking to simply start a discussion for the time being. Who knows, maybe some other Artix user is also nostalgic for good old parallel sysvinit?

Best regards,
Chris
Title: Re: Idea: upstart (Discussion)
Post by: cds on 29 August 2025, 12:06:38
Ah yes, back in my squeeze days :)
Title: Re: Idea: upstart (Discussion)
Post by: ####### on 29 August 2025, 14:56:47
Devuan  uses sysvinit, the scripts are still maintained.
Title: Re: Idea: upstart (Discussion)
Post by: Worm_Jim on 29 August 2025, 16:31:09
Any modern init will tear apart the upstart like Tuzik a hot water bottle. Are there any arguments other than nostalgia?
Title: Re: Idea: upstart (Discussion)
Post by: emergentx43 on 30 August 2025, 10:10:13
Are there any arguments other than nostalgia?

Init freedom?
Title: Re: Idea: upstart (Discussion)
Post by: Worm_Jim on 31 August 2025, 17:27:01
Personally I'm not interested in it, but it's not impossible. If you have experience, you can try and maybe something will come out of it, like that guy who forked gtk2 in 2023 (gtk3 came out in 2011, by the way) and even built xfce on gtk2 for arch :)