Systemd and Where We Want to Take the Basic Linux Userspace in 2016

Old init systems maybe are of subpar quality, but calling "not perfect" a tangled mess of DNSSEC, containers manager, nonsensical log receiver, QR codes implementation, device file manager, filesystem mounter, network manager, and IPC bus is a vast understatement.

Considering how Poettering's software fits into servers landscape, I feel heavy urge to steer away from whatever he recommends.

> [...] use whatever distro you feel empowers you!

You could say the same about iPhone: use whatever phone OS empowers you on this hardware!

It's not like there are many non-systemd distributions left, much less the distributions you could entrust with a server (or a farm of servers).

Other code in various systems being crappy is orthogonal to systemd's crappiness levels.

Frankly i don't get it. The only place that stateless makes sense (unless you are really deep into -sec) is in container farms.

So for distros, in particular any distro that tries to present itself as general purpose, to focus on that end up as "some animals are more equal than others".

Fuck it, who is he to even "suggest" where distros should focus?! Its the horse dictating where the cart is going to be used for.