IRILL - Research and Innovation on Free Software Wheezy is the first release of Debian with systemd. We are going to give an overview of systemd itself, the current state of systemd in Debian and what our plans for the next release cycle are. In addition, we'll cover what packagers should know about systemd.
Table of contents for the talk: What is systemd (and why does it exist) service management components and how they work together: init, udev, journal
systemd in Wheezy what works what doesn't work lessons learned
systemd in Jessie policy and helpers cleanups in init scripts systemd-to-initscript converter
udev for non-systemd systems
systemd for packagers