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Finally, with recent release of Sun’s JDK 5.0 Update 8 I can run Netbeans on my systems running Xgl!!!  It was such a pain having to open Netbeans in a seperate Xnest window to do any development (or use one of my none-Xgl systems, hooray for the Mac!).

[Upstart]

It appears that Ubuntu is working on an init daemon replacement called Upstart.  All I can say is it is about time!  Apple replaced it a while ago with launchd and Sun replaced it with smf.  I have been wondering how long it would take for a mainstream distribution to come up with an init replacement.

Upstart has been recently added to the Universe repository for Ubuntu for testing.  They are hoping that Upstart will be ready to intially replace the init system by the time Edgy is released.  By the time Edgy+1 is released they are hoping to have it completely replace cron, atd, anacron, and inetd.  Then by Edgy+2 they are saying that no new packages will be accepted unless they provide upstart jobs instead of init scripts.

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