Looking for a comprehensive guide to how (K)Ubuntu starts

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:51:37 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>On 14 August 2016 at 18:56, Duane Whitty wrote:
>> A small correction: I am using 14.04.1 not 14.04.4  
>
>Then forget about it, because the init system used in 14.x has been
>removed and replaced in 16.x with systemd.
>
>If you want to track such things by hand, Ubuntu is not the distro for
>you. I'd suggest Arch Linux or Gentoo.

The chances are good that some day the Ubuntu Wiki and help pages will
have more contributors [1] than just 81 direct members of the
"Ubuntu Wiki Editors" team [2] and perhaps a few additional contributors
by the flavour's documentation teams.

I'm using Arch and Ubuntu and I edited Wikis for both distros. Indeed,
while the Arch community might be smaller than the Ubuntu community,
the user base contributing to the Arch Wikis most likely is much higher.

As you can see somebody applied for membership 2016-07-21 [2], I've done
17 hours ago.

However, to understand systemd, an Ubuntu user anyway could read
freedesktop.org and even Arch Wikis. To get more information about
upstart by a Wiki is something else.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2016-August/020145.html

[2]
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors/+members?active_batch=75&active_direction=backwards&active_start=75