Integrating systemd: Booting Userspace in Less Than 1 Second - ELCE 2011

by Koen Kooi, Lead developer of the Angstrom distribution.

Systemd is currently being hyped as the sysvinit replacement and this presentation will show why it's here to stay. A brief introduction to systemd will be given but the main focus is on showing how to integrate it into your favourite platform and how a few hours of tweaking can boot userspace into X11 in less than 1 second on the current generation of ARM chips. A comparison with slower low-end ARM chips will also be included and some design considerations when designing those low-end systems. The audience is system integrators and hobbyists that require a fast boot (e.g. robotics people). The talk will be fairly high level with a good chunk of time reserved for Q&A. The interactive presentation style has worked well for systemd presentations done by other people in the past (e.g. Lennart at LCA).

Video source: http://free-electrons.com/blog/elce-2011-videos/

http://www.cnx-software.com/2011/11/08/booting-userspace-in-less-than-1-second-with-systemd-elce-2011/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVcfjs02Srs