why do we use systemd?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 11:07 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:38:16AM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Garry T. Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > There are a slew of references on the 'Net
> > 
> > Then give one ...
> 
> Or if you could share your slides from the talk you gave, that would be
> nice.  I sincerely would like to understand systemd, and so far all
> references I find on the Internet are as heavy in jargon as the man
> pages.  To clarify a bit, I'm usually okay with reading man pages, so
> I'm not expecting to find something written in plain english for the
> non-technical user.

+1

BTW, I am a technical user (i.e. I'm more technically inclined than most
people and less so than some), but I object to that being used as a
crutch by people who don't take the trouble to write clearly. Writing
clear documentation is just as hard as writing good code. The single
most important factor in the early adoption of Unix (showing my age
here) was the fact that everything was documented and the docs are for
the most part models of clarity.

poc