On 17 August 2012 11:31, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@hughes.net> wrote:
There has been much ado on the arch-general mailing list about the move to systemd. I participated in part of it, but like others finally tired of "seeing a dead horse kicked" over and over and over. So much so that the last dev who really paid attention to the list said goodbye. Yet the free for all continues. I think a comment on Allan's blog post might illustrate
Here are some stats that are quite useful in terms of the number of users of systemd:
At http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/stats.html
Using the "kernel" tab we see that the approximate number of systems that have their system details logged using Fedora 16 is over 100,000 if you total the entries for x86_64 and the i686 and i686 PAE kernels most of which are systems using systemd. Given that so many machines are currently running systemd it can't be all that bad! This is of course only for Fedora but machines are also running systemd in other distributions as well.
Speaks volumes really - and again supports the decision that the devs have made - with a much larger user base than the straw poll made available by another poster on this mailing list.
-- mike c
Thank you for starting a thread that (crosses fingers) will stay rant free & intelligent. After reading all the who-har in the other's I decided to install systemd on my lappy & TBH was very pleased with the result. That being that the install itself was hassle free & the configuration was bizarrely intuitive & easy, I had a small issue that lightdm-unity-greeter was not starting, so I made a note of the error given & checked the .service, .device, .target files & was astounded to see seriously plain text to the point where I followed through the process systemd took & worked out the problem reboot & bingo I fixed it without even looking on the web! I still have sysVinit installed & will begin cloning the system prior to removing sysVinit, one point is that my Arch-laptop has one partition for the whole OS but when i come to try this on my desktop I will be facing lots of different drives & partitions which I feel may also be relatively easy to resolve & get working. Either way I think I have the same feeling on this as other Archers, that being that we came to arch to live on the OS edge & take advantage of what is new in the linux world whilst trying to stick with the KISS principle. I think systemd is a step forward but the truth will be in the pudding. Again thanks for a sane thread :) -- Regards Thomas Rand