В недавно вышедшей тестовой сборке openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 система инициальзации openSUSE преведена на Upstart.
>The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon.
http://news.opensuse.org/2010/03/25/opensuse-11-3-milestone-4-release/