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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/06/2014 05:36 PM, Charles Shapiro
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<pre wrap="">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.</pre>
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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.<br>
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It took a while to convince me. It wasn't until I cross-compiled a
standalone busybox-based system for the Rπ that I realized that this
was <i>exactly</i> 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 <i>tiny</i>.
And could fit on <i>anything</i> 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.<br>
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— Mike<br>
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