Here are some video presentations which have influenced my outlook regarding the prospect of using a systemd-centric pc:
Fedora/systemd on lxc status
Oct 2013, 15 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLj5nvqU86IAll Your Control Groups Are Belong To Us! - Lennart Poettering
Oct 2013, 55min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSG4jW187IsLennart Poettering - systemd as the Core OS
Dec 2012, 64 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aa34Uzr3c[Arch] Change to Systemd 2/4/2013 + Small rant
Feb 2013, (jump to 1:10sec mark) ~10minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBrbS5f8rnMDebian systemd liason
"Your problem, not ours... i think that's a reasonable compromise... that's all I can say, sorry"
WTF? I replayed, re-listened to his response several times
jump to 22minute mark (listen up to at least 24:00 mark)
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@28:30 "How hard to install and tryout systemd?"
zero friction. After installing, add init=/bin/systemd to kernel cmdline in grub,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvy0e9kbAoskdbus (libsystemd-bus) D-Bus in the kernel
Jan 2014, jump to @27:00mark "within 1yr or so... basically it's going to be kdbus and {inaudible} that's all"
@44:00 "dbus proxy... but it only exists for compatibility and it'll probably be going away soon"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgR6d54blrUtakeaway:
After spending several hours engaged in "learning" about systemd's benefits, and implications, I _STILL_ haven't formed a firm opinion regarding whether I'd welcome, or loathe, its presence on my
desktop pc. Near-term, nspawn and LXC (under systemd) seems like a reasonable track for server computing.
For desktop computing, I worry that kdbus+systemd+GTK3 will subsume (or squeeze out) development of many alternative, freestanding, applications that I use.