On Friday Scott James announced that Upstart is now ready to replace sysvinit. Recently when I gave my first impressions of Upstart, I was a little worried that this system could not be ready for Edgy next month. After reading this update though I feel more confident that the Ubuntu team can pull it together and get it working for the 6.10 release.

It now seems that they have all the basic functionality in place to make a full replacement of sysvinit. With my initial review I was a little concerned when I realized you could not easily shut down or restart your system using Upstart. Now that have that functionality the system really does look like it will be ready for the release of 6.10.

Personally I can not wait, I like change it gives you something to look forward too. Far too many Linux distros are stagnating recently, just release updates to programs that have been around for many years. That stability is great for servers, but for desktop systems they thrive on change. Sometimes it is good to shake things up a little.

*Update 9/12/2006: Fixed a silly typo where I said upstart "is not ready" when I meant to say upstart "is now ready." Big difference. :)