4 ms·

I don't know launchd, but upstart was a piece of crap that didn't even implement it's own documented functionality.

• Daviey 10y ago
  "piece of crap" really isn't fair. It powered many Ubuntu releases and Red hat 6. I liked upstart.
  • amaranth 10y ago
    RHEL 6 only supported using upstart in sysvinit compatibility mode, I believe. They didn't actually use any upstart jobs.
    • Daviey 10y ago
      ...and that still doesn't make it a POC.
• rocqua 10y ago
  True, upstart wasn't good. It's existence rebukes the claim that systemd won because it was the only replacement for sysv.
• lsh 10y ago
  I liked upstart!
  • rspeer 10y ago
    Upstart also had inscrutable crashing bugs, kind of like what this article describes about systemd, and it didn't even do as much.