Hi everyone! My experience with systemd is a +1 as well. I use it in my laptop and it provides a nice experience for a desktop user. Starting services on demand, suspend support and all other features gives a nice experience for an end user.
Maybe it's just my idea but I think the system is somewhat faster on the booting now. True for me as well. From grub to kdm in around 5sec.
Nevertheless, this overall good opinion can't hide certain (or significant I might say) worries. Your system now relies in a bunch of binary code that might not be posible to workaround if something goes wrong. Scripts may not be as efficient but they are great in order to skip,modify or run them in case of emergency. Logging using systemd infrastructure provides a very pleasent usage experience for me as you can very easily select the relevant records you're interested in without a lot of grep magic. But I've already suffered the downside of relying on binary stored records. In case of system crash/forced shutdown or power failure log files might end up corrupted. Which is a pretty nasty thing you don't want to happen and it opens a big door to atacks. I would recomend systemd for interactive users but I don't wan't it in a server that much. I can't give an opinion on wether initscripts should be dropped or not. Aitor Pazos Ibarzabal Instant Messaging (Jabber, GTalk): aitor@aitorpazos.es Web: http://aitorpazos.es PGP Public Key: http://aitorpazos.es/publickey.asc