On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:53AM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/02/14 02:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >Well, it was originally meant to be default in Fedora 14 and there were > >many discussions about it. it is been years since that point. Perhaps > >people didn't pay attention to it and didn't realize it but it wasn't > >snuck in when people weren't looking. There were literally hundreds of > >mails on the subject before it become default. > > Well, to be frank, it was sold to solve the issue of start up time of > computers. It has then evolved to almost transfer the GNU/Linux concept to > systemd/Linux. And this is something that has to be addressed, even on on a > users list. Users use Fedora too, you know :) and might have usable (users) > views on the subject. This is incorrect. The actual problems systemd was meant to solve include but are not limited to: * Properly sorting dependencies of services * Simplifying startup configuration * Allowing arbitrary levels of startup * Allowing sysadmins more control over resource utilization The fact that the parallelization in systemd permits faster startup time was a side benefit. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
