It contains many startup scripts which are run at boot (called from scripts in /etc/init.d) -- the whole boot process is a mess --

As an example, it contains the script that asks for the lock code if you've set one as well as stuff that is done during the first boot.

I hope some day I can really document the whole startup mess in Maemo5. But I still need to read the upstart source code, as many things happen even if you wouldn't expect them to happen. Why, oh why, does Maemo use upstart? it's a (small) piece of *fixed* hardware. We just need a linear boot script that does *every-fvcking-thing* depending on the runlevel (normal, actdead, reboot, shutdown).

But no, "modern" Linux has to over-complicate everything for the sake of enlarging the egos of incompetent programmers (read: freedesktop, gnome, ubuntu, debian, etc.)

There, I said it!