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From: Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:11:19
Message-Id: CAG2nJkOHHNVH1-eSqW4nAV4ZyyFva1b3xFqHoVo3J8yt23SoNw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd by Grant Edwards
1 On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
2 wrote:
3
4 > On 2014-09-18, Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > Mark David Dumlao wrote:
6 > >> The code is out there. Freely available. Both systemd and sysvinit.
7 > >> If you wanted to measure both, you could, literally, in the time it
8 > >> took since you first posted in this thread till now you could have
9 > >> measured several times and left mean comments about whichever
10 > >> system you hated the most.
11 > >
12 > > Unfortunately, the systemd guys keep screaming that systemd is faster,
13 > > and burden of proof is on the party that's claiming something. It's not
14 > > James'/Volker's responsibility to prove that systemd isn't faster.
15 >
16 > I don't understand all the hoopla about systemd being "faster".
17 >
18 > Faster at what?
19 >
20 > Booting?
21 >
22 > The only Linux systems where I care about boot time are embedded
23 > systems which are never going to have the resources needed to run
24 > systemd.
25
26
27 You are mistaken. I've helped a friend debug problems on a couple devices
28 running a custom Arch system with systemd.
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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>