[vox] [fwd] SVLUG General Meeting: Systemd -- The Modern Linux init System You Will Learn to Love

[Brian E. Lavender]

Awesome!

Is this the atomic bomb that split Debian?

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:15:21PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> BTW, I've invited Alison to speak at LUGOD, and she's agreed to come
> talk about systemd in May (assuming she isn't forced to reschedule
> due to work).
> 
> In the meantime, you can see her speak tomorrow night in Mtn View.
> 
> -bill!
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Weisler <mark at weisler-saratoga-ca.us> -----
> 
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:05:50 -0800
> From: Mark Weisler <mark at weisler-saratoga-ca.us>
> Subject: [svlug-announce] SVLUG General Meeting: Systemd -- The Modern Linux
> 	init System You Will Learn to Love
> To: svlug-announce at lists.svlug.org
> 
>    WHEN:
> 
>      Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
>      7pm-9pm
> 
>    MAIN PRESENTATION
> 
>     TOPIC: Systemd -- The Modern Linux init System You Will Learn to Love
> 
>     PRESENTED BY:
>     Alison Chaiken
> 
>     TOPIC SUMMARY:
>       The controversial systemd has absorbed udev, and purported to replace
>    syslog with the journal daemon. 
>       Recent decisions by Debian and Ubuntu to adopt systemd assure its
>    prominence as a Linux init system. 
>       Users and sysadmins are predictably horrified. In fact, systemd is
>    winning wide acceptance, our speaker says, 
>       because it is simpler, easier to use, and better documented than its
>    competition. 
>       Chaiken will describe how to get started with systemd, discuss some
>    problems with it, and perform some simple demos. Attendees should feel
>    free to submit questions and diatribes in advance.
>       This presentation will be co-sponsored by the Silicon Valley Linux
>    Technology Meetup. 
> 
>     ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
>        Alison Chaiken is a senior software engineer working in embedded Linux
>    and middleware, and a longtime SVLUG member, 
>       who has been our featured speaker twice before, and is always an
>    eagerly anticipated speaker. 
>       She was in the recent past a MeeGo Technical Consultant at Nokia
>    Mobility Solutions, and describes herself as 'a recovering physicist', 
>       who has computed primarily on Unix since the days of the VAX 11/750.
>    Before her work at Nokia, she worked on pervasive computing projects at HP
>    Labs, 
>       then moved to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to write instrument
>    control and user interface software.        
>     LOCATION:
> 
>       Symantec
>       VCAFE Facility
>       350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
>       Mountain View, CA 94043
> 
>       Directions on how to get there are listed at:
> 
>       http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.php
> 
>     We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
>     If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
>     webmaster at svlug.org
> 
>    POST-MEETING GATHERING:
> 
>     If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
>     restaurant/diner after the meeting:  Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too,
>     939 West El Camino Real between Shoreline and Castro, Mountain View.
> 
>    We look forward to seeing you there!
> 
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> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> -- 
> -bill!
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture