WANTED: presentation on systemd for upcoming PLUG meeting

[Joseph Sinclair]

Todd,
  Thanks for volunteering to do this.
This is exactly the kind of presentation the community needs as systemd becomes the default in the most common and supported distributions.


On 04/07/2016 12:45 PM, Todd Millecam wrote:
> Alright, to clarify:  I am, in no way, interested in any kind of flamewar.
> The only opinion I offer is that if you have 5MB of ram to spare at boot
> time and a multi-core processor, systemd is an excellent utility. It's also
> likely to have a successor in the next 10 years.
> 
> My presentation is for those who are interested in learning about systemd.
> 
> This presentation is for people who:
>  1) Are worried about migrating from init to systemd
>  2) Need to work with systemd professionally
>  3) Want to make their own services in systemd
>  4) Are curious about systemd's features
>  5) Need to know how to use systemd to debug OS and service level problems.
> 
> This presentation might be helpful for people who:
>  1) Know little or nothing about the boot process in general
>  2) Know little or nothing about PID 1 or what it does.
>  3) Know little or nothing about services or service management in Linux
>  4) Are new to Linux (because I rehearse them on my non-technical wife)
> 
> This presentation is not for anyone who wants to argue over why PID 1
> competitor X is better than systemd.  I don't care.  Leave it at the door.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Todd Millecam <tyggna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That's in my presentation, but only sysvinit vs systemd, since most of
>> those are just shell script frameworks on top of sysvinit--but I talk about
>> that.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:40:38 -0700
>>> Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The next ubuntu release is an LTS and it also brings with it systemd,
>>>> so many users that like to stick with an LTS will be experiencing
>>>> systemd for the first time.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyone that could cover systemd's differences, what
>>>> advantages it has,
>>>
>>> Might it be prudent, along with discussing its advantages, to discuss
>>> its disadvantages, both compared to sysvinit, and compared to the many
>>> other Linux init systems out there (Epoch, runit, s6, s6-rc, Suckless
>>> Init plus daemontools-encore, Busybox Init) to name a few?
>>>
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> Steve Litt
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Todd Millecam
>>
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