Feature changed by: Jon Nelson (jnelson-suse) Feature #310327, revision 3 Title: use systemd session manager instead of SysVinit/upstart openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Description: systemd (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd) is a system and session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Thanks. + Discussion: + #1: Jon Nelson (jnelson-suse) (2010-08-15 00:05:47) + sysvinit works and it works very well. While some other distros are + going to Upstart, honestly I don't really see any significant advantage + Upstart has over sysvinit, or even the Makefile-based parallel task + startup. However, systemd seems like it actually rethinks the entire + process, and for the better. I would like to see more + supervise/runit/freedt-like functionality in systemd, but if one is to + choose from among sysvinit, upstart, and systemd - it seems that there + is no compelling reason to choose upstart instead of sysvinit (except + for considerably smaller init scripts) but systemd has a far greater + architectural technological advantage. + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310327