[ale] systemd or not

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 09/06/2014 05:36 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Mike, this is real interesting.  I started out suspicious and hostile about
> systemd, and the press didn't help.   Your posts are changing my mind.

I was very skeptical myself.  Specifically, the whole Upstart thing 
turned me off to the idea of sysvinit replacements for quite some time.  
It wasn't until I realized that most of the distributions switched and 
that RHEL 7 was going to use it that I started learning it---quite 
reluctantly.

It took a while to convince me.  It wasn't until I cross-compiled a 
standalone busybox-based system for the R? that I realized that this was 
/exactly/ what we need.  I built 5 packages, configured the boot 
process, and it actually worked.  I got a shell on the console.  After 
stripping all of the binaries, it was /tiny/. And could fit on 
/anything/ we have today, save for places where there is no hope for the 
Linux kernel to ever run, such as a PIC or AVR 8-bit MCU.

     --- Mike
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