Debian switched to dash in Unstable/Testing a in Summer 2009, maybe they have produced some statistics about the effects? They aren't usually doing such intrusive changes without good reason. Karsten Am Freitag, 12. Februar 2010 14:22:42 schrieb Guido Berhoerster:
* Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> [2010-02-12 12:32]:
I submitted a new package to openSUSE:Factory: upstart. Mainly because of https://features.opensuse.org/305690 - the biggest gain of having it is clearly that everyone else has it, it doesn't get openSUSE a win right away. But not having it, may become a disadventage shortly - who knows.
For now we will support sysvinit and upstart as alternatives, but my preference would be not for long. The package I submitted is pretty much only a start and adopting our scripts to upstart will be less of a pain if we do not have to support alternatives.
If speeding up the bootup process is a concern, considering that the execution of bootup scripts is already parallelized, wouldn't it be more productive to switch to a faster shell for init scripts?
Quoting https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh:
The boot speed improvements in Ubuntu 6.10 were often incorrectly attributed to Upstart, which is a fine platform for future development of the init system but in Ubuntu 6.10 was primarily running in System V compatibility mode with only small behavioural changes. These improvements were in fact largely due to the changed /bin/sh.
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