Recently I was asked why use systemd vs sysvinit in embedded systems? There are many discussions on this, and really most of the reasons people use it for servers and desktops are also valid for embedded systems. Lennart Poettering’s articles explain very well why you might want to consider systemd. A few things that rank high on my list:
Since I’ve been running archlinux on some of my systems, one thing I’ve found useful is systemd-nspawn. systemd-nspawn containers (or chroots on non-systemd systems) give… Read More »OS Containers for Build Systems
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