Comment Re:Misleading summary (Score 1) 460
Read Mr Poettering's own account of systemd at http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
Features are listed in legions but only one tangible, significant benefit: it's supposed to be faster.
Only one real benefit and then only to laptop owners. What would a server admin care if it takes 2 minutes to boot or 15 seconds or 10 minutes? Who cares?
Now, if you google the first major distro to go systemd ie fedora-15, you'll see that it's not faster at all in practice. So all that change, all the obfuscation of hiding in compiled code what used to be clear (in bash-scripts), all the complexity, confusion, breakages, fear, uncertainty and doubt amounts to - no advantage at all.
I'm not sure if it's enough to have me bail out of the fedora world - but surely this won't find its way into RHEL?!?!? Please tell me not!!!