why do we use systemd?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 04:16:35PM +0200, poma wrote:
> On 06.07.2014 16:04, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:34:32PM -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> >>Garry T. Williams writes:
> >>
> >>>On 7-5-14 22:07:17 Garry T. Williams wrote:
> >>>>whenever systemd determines that the multi-user Target is its
> >>>>objective.  This corresponds to what we used to call system level 2.
> >>>
> >>>Heh.  How quickly I forget.  That should be *run* level *3*.
> >>
> >>How quickly indeed. Run level 3 did not include a display manager. That was
> >>run level 5, at least on the variants I'm remembering (my very dim
> >>recollection is that Debian--I might be confused--did run levels
> >>differently, many moons ago). To my limited knowledge, systemd does not make
> >>that particular fine a grain of control possible (and, for my purposes, this
> >>doesn't matter).
> >
> >I think systemd allows for this.
> >
> >   3 → multi-user target
> >   5 → graphical target
> >
> >FWIW, I think systemd documentation is quite extensive, but definitely
> >not for regular people.  It is documentation written by developers for
> >other developers.
> >
> 
> Your interpretation is quite narrow.
> What about admins, enthusiasts and all those who avere sale in zucca.

Actually by regular user I meant anyone who is not a developer.  I am
myself an enthusiast/admin(for my home systems), and I find systemd docs
very hard to follow.

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Suvayu

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