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A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console
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This looks cool, I like this... but if I read the screenshot correctly, it took them 12 seconds from initrd to fully loaded. Maybe this would make sense there, but my laptop boots so fast, those 12 seconds are like two seconds. It would take longer to render the screen than it would just spraying its usual text to the VT. (Honestly, it spends more time in uefi preboot than it does to actually boot the system.)
Comment on Hacker News · 4 direct repliesLike it :) What i don't get is why booting still takes seconds. When power is on, the hardware is on. You can initalize most hardware in parallel, reading the amount of operation system into ram is fast.
Comment on Hacker NewsI usually don't like TUI's and just want outputs into emacs text buffers, but this interface is beautiful, A nice thing to glance at that tells you everything you need to know about your systemd units. Well done.
Comment on Hacker Newslove it! finally an improvement after 30 years. but also no reason to not render the tree with proper graphics, TUI is an UI just like GUI is and living dags are particularly well suited to be animated.
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct replies`systemctl status` gives you a tree already, just not live view
Comment on Hacker News · 3 direct repliesI want to give this a try, but my uptime…
Comment on Hacker NewsDidn't codeberg ban LLM-written projects?
Comment on Hacker NewsJust tried this out, very cool!
Comment on Hacker NewsThis is outstanding user interface design. Whoever came up with this is a real talent. I would love to understand the process of coming up with the UX design is, what the principles are, and where the understanding of what "good" looks like, comes from.
Comment on Hacker NewsHeh, I’m so old that I remember when systemd promised that the new init system would be easier to understand than those "vague startup scripts." Meanwhile, on systems where I don’t use systemd, the entire initialization process can be displayed in about 30 lines on the screen - and I don’t have to wade through a chaotic web of dependencies, some of which are even auto-generated. As far as I can tell, I currently have about 350 of them active. Boot times were supposed to be fast, too - yet, curiously enough, systemd often ends up saying, "waiting 1m30s for..."
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