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Oh come now, no one likes systemd!

I kid. Sort of. Systemd is a great startup launcher -- maybe even an improvement over rc.d. Although I confess I've never had any issues with rc.d. Systemd can be quicker, which is nice, but 15 seconds saved on a server that reboots very infrequently is not super interesting. More importantly, the rest of systemd is less compelling.

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Now a comprehensive book on systemd would be really nice. Most of the stuff out there is focused on service files, but there's a LOT of other stuff in the systemd ecosystem that doesn't have much easily accessible content available.

I think I agree that there’s not a _ton_ of content out there on 80%+ of the systemd featureset.

However, the first-party docs are really quite good. Considering that some blog posts are written to compensate for a lack of docs, I wonder if there’s a causal relation there.

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