Clarification on upstart-0.5 and dbus usage

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:43 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:

> Sarvi> Are you implying that if my team was willing to put the effort
> into making Upstart more suitable for Embedded systems as well, that it
> would be contradictory to the direction/goals of Upstart. Is the
> intention of Upstart only big heavy Workstations.  Note that LaunchD the
> Apple equivalent of Upstart runs on the iPhone as well, and I don't see
> why Upstart needs to aim any lower.
> 
The iPhone runs a slightly slimmed variant of Mac OS X, this is not by
any means the usual definition of the word "embedded".

In the Linux world, the closest equivalents would be the Maemo OS of the
Nokia Internet Tablets (a slimmed down Debian) and Ubuntu Mobile Edition
(a slimmed down Ubuntu).

The design of Maemo is heavily dependant on D-Bus, using it as the
fundamental communication technology between all desktop and system
components. 

Ubuntu Mobile also heavily builds on D-Bus and also uses Upstart as the
underlying service manager.

Scott
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