On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:58:21PM -0500, Ken Teh wrote:
>
> I read the following article on systemd ...
>

I was accidentally exposed to systemd by running Fedora-20 on an ARM machine (no SL6 for ARM, so...)
and I can make a few comments:

- no noticable change in boot times or memory usage on F20 with systemd on 1GHz ARM with 0.5GB RAM
  compared to 1GHz Pentium3 with 0.5GB RAM and SL5/SL6

- /etc/rc.local still works (after you enable it by following the well written documentation)
  (some people write custom startup scripts then complain, I just stuff all custom things
   into /etc/rc.local).

- everything can be controlled by "chkconfig on/off", an improvement over SL6 where there is
  no "chkconfig off" for the X server (it is controlled by upstart).

- F20 as shipped /etc/rc.local does not work, to fix it, I had to read the documentation
  and learn how to debug the systemd control scripts. This was a very positive experience,
  I found the documentation well written and I found systemd working as documented and having
  adequate debugging facilities. (As contrasted with upstart in SL6, where there
  is NO documentation; also as contrasted with udev where the voluminous documentation
  is completely useless and where udev rules cannot be debugged).

So the devil is not as bad as he is painted.

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Konstantin Olchanski
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