First, I was recently recommended this systemd video, a record of Lennart’s presentation at linux.conf.au, I liked it.

Second, I just realised Junio (the maintainer of git) went Google last year, as he states this in a recent interview. OK, I don’t really follow closely git development anymore, but good to know he now works on this not only one day a week. :)

Finally, I just saw Michael’s FOSDEM talk. I was innocently just watching it, then was surprised to see my name here and there. ;)

I first heard about systemd from voroskoi, later Michael pointed it out again during the OOoCon 2010, finally it somehow came up on #frugalware.dev today.

So I read up some documentation in this area, and I definitely like it. (Note: I didn’t say I’m willing to do all the work to integrate this into Frugalware, but I like the idea.) For me, the killer post is this one: a distro-independent init script in 8 lines is very much like our FrugalBuild scripts which are no longer than 11 lines for a project with a standard build-system.

I like that minimalism a lot.