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. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
