[ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org] - OT MS vs Apple vs Linux/UNIX

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:08:26 -0700
Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> Ok, so serious questions, then, that no one ever seems to answer
> online that I can find:
> 
> 1.  If a feature of systemd is not needed at all, does it still load?
> Case in point, according to the docs PulseAudio is a core module of
> PID 1.  If I have no audio hardware, is that still going to be in the
> memory footprint?  It appears from some reading that the packaged
> versions that would come with any major distro would have every
> single module built in which case the only way to turn things off is
> to compile systemd from scratch.  I can't find anything about turning
> features off if the compile-time switch was turned on.

I think you can turn off PulseAudio or any other service with systemctl
commands, no need to reboot. In that regard systemd is just like any
other init system.

I don't know the answers to your other questions.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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