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Upstart Position Statement

Upstart is a modern, well-tested, event-based init system. It is used on tens or hundreds of millions of servers, desktops, cloud instances and embedded systems throughout the world. Debian should adopt it as the default init system for the jessie release.

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Upstart vs. SysVinit

Upstart vs. SystemD

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