[ale] [systemd] Boot speed

[leam hall]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Damon L. Chesser via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> Least you think I am on the systemd side:  I agree with what you wrote.  My
> Arch system takes for ever (subjectively) to boot, maby 20 to 30 sec AFTER I
> give the encrypted password, then I have to wait what feels like an eternity
> to get my NIC to find an IP and initialize (wither or not static or DHCP is
> used).  I am soooooo glad systemd fixed that boot speed issue.  OTHO, eh.
> Not really that big of a deal for me to dig into it and fix it.

Hey Damon.

I probably thought that at first, but your point about paying the
bills is valid. If worked switched to a systemd based OS next week I'd
switch and suck it up. And mumble a bit.

I've been wanting to move out of straight Linux admin for a while.
Mostly because mgmt tends to view us as commodities where the
developers are semi-divine and always right. (HA!) It seems like RHEL
is going the way of VMWare and the F5 BigIP; lots of stuff to prevent
the engineer from getting into the system and fixing things. Both
VMWare and the BigIP were on RHEL last time I looked, way under the
hood. There was no expectation that you could get there though.

In one terminal window I've done a git push of some sci-fi I'm
writing. In another I'm working on Ruby code to better collate book
chapters. I have a small whiteboard with an idea for a space merchant
text based game sketched out, at least at the first blush level.

I used to come home and play with sendmail attempts or apache configs.
So far I'm not seeing a lot of "whoo-hoo" when I think about learning
systemd.