Hi Alexander,

Wow, Yocto Linux sure sounds like "fun" :-) I've heard some similar stories about getting Linux onto embedded ARM systems (and now that you mention it, I remember playing around with buildroot a while back), but I guess I am lucky in that I went from writing my own code and drivers for embedded systems without OSes (like TI's MSP430), skipped over getting Linux to run on embedded systems on my own, and now can develop directly on Raspbian on an RPi. If I had to design another embedded system, I'd probably use something that can run a full Linux distro directly.

All the arguments against systemd do make a very strong case against it. In your other post you mention Devuan, but personally I'd be cautious with a distro that is a fork that changes just one thing about the system - I'd worry about whether or not it will be maintained well over time. Although I admit I'm not yet ready to switch right now because my setup works for me for now, but since I've been doing a lot of work on RPis lately, I'll have to start considering whether systemd is the right thing for such an embedded system.

In terms of boot time, I can imagine there are situations where it might be important, for example if there's some kind of power saving necessary - I once developed a system with an FPGA that had to "boot" within a few milliseconds so that it could only be turned on for a fraction of a second to conserve power. But I assume that's rare, and I don't think systemd is the solution for that kind of a hypothetical situation ;-)

Regards,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^15: CPAN failed install by haukex
in thread CPAN failed install by Linicks

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