On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Levi Pearson <levipear...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyway, systemd has nothing to do with making life easier for new users. It > aims to make life better for sysadmins, though admittedly not the ones who > are set in their ways and can't be bothered to learn new things. It's a > little more opaque than a script-based init system, but not much more once > you are familiar with it. In return, it offers speed, security, and resource > usage improvements over other init systems.
As the guy who was leading the Fedora Project when systemd went in, I couldn't agree more. Systemd is about creating the next generation init system (and a few other pieces of plumbing). It's aimed squarely at the sys-admin who wants parallel startup of services, ordered dependencies, socket-activated services, and is willing to have faster boot times as an added bonus. This was not about change for the sake of change or just about boot speed -- it was about moving past the crufty design of SystemV-style initialization. -- Jared Smith /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
