Hi, My suggestion is that you keep both init systems, SysV/LSB and systemd, as separate offerings out of many, and forever so. You would install them as suitable for your individual system needs. The SysV/LSB system init would be default as is now. The reason for it is twofold: - SysV/LSB init system - it is established, with a long history of familiarity within UNIX/Linux OS environments, whether by a professional or amateur sysadmin, a system programmer or architect, a technical or casual user - adherence to UNIX principles - ease of use due to shell scripting - transparency of code due to shell use - ease of system setup - ease of prototyping, editing, experimenting, etc - based on the above, it has a distincit advantage over systemd - systemd - as of today, it does not offer any functional advantage over SysV/LSB, except a new make-up with heavy use of lipstic in form of unit configuration files (and control functions) - there is no promised land of "parallelization" and speed, which can not be achieved without applying concurrency and all system programming models and tools available today (client-server/master-slave, sockets, multithreading, synchronization constructs, synchronous/asynchronous programming, or even hybrid event- and threads-driven programming where appropriate, etc) - the project, to achieve full benefits of concurrency, should become fully autonomous and self-contained - it should abandon any utilization of or allowing shell processing (internally or externally) - it should use coding in C exclusively, with a separate execution environment, data structures, config files, services definition and execution, controls, secure programming, etc. - advantages: - a separate development env - speed - clearer paths to utilization - availability and possible customization for and in devices or systems that would have unique requirements, where traditional (script based) init systems would be impossible or inappropriate - ability to tailor it for cooperation with other environments (GNOME, etc) JB ZZTop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-y33Uq6HGs -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel