On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:08:32 -0500 C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xtfx.me> wrote: <snip>
the boot process isn't really that interesting (once you know/understand it anyway ... if not i encourage you to explor ;-) -- every distro pretty much does it the same way, but pointlessly independent, thus resulting in annoying differences that are completely irrelevant to begin with.
Thank you for a measured reply Anthony. I take your points. I have also watched LP's FOSDEM systemd presentation on Youtube (understanding about 80% of it), and read most of the links provided by other posters (especially the internal debate between Red Hat devs). I understand that there are advantages, but I am left with the lingering impression that systemd is part of a larger project, - as discussed by Fons Adriaensen in this thread. It bothers me. Geoff