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One of the bigger arguments is also "it only works on Linux, what about BSDs, OS X, etc.?"

> One of the bigger arguments is also "it only works on Linux, what about BSDs, OS X, etc.?"

In what way is that a "big argument"? BSD has their own rc-thing (not sysv init), OS X has launchd (not sysv init, shares many similarities with systemd actually, such as socket activation), Solaris has SMF (again, not sysv init), etc.

Apart from a bunch of non-mainstream Linux distros sticking with sysv init, who else is actually using it?

No one. That's why this is such a stupid argument. BSD and OSX and Solaris and other Unixes have been doing their own thing for ages, and none of them worried about being compatible with other competing Unixes. But somehow Linux distros are wrong to do their own thing (collectively), and should be worried about *BSD and OSX? It makes no sense.

... which is food for thought for the Ubuntu world, now it has Ubuntu on BSD and Ubuntu on Windows NT in addition to Ubuntu on Linux.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415985

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326457

Ubuntu and Debian. I _think_ Gentoo might fall under this as well, though I'd have to check.

But yes.

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