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I think it's a legitimate question. Systemd seems more targeted towards desktop environments where things like D-BUS are needed. I'm thinking of bastion serve

I think it's a legitimate question. Systemd seems more targeted towards desktop environments where things like D-BUS are needed. I'm thinking of bastion server configurations using a distributions like CentOS where less is more. It may be worthwhile to use Sys-V which has less moving parts, fewer configuration options and thus fewer vulnerability points. Not to say that systemd cannot be hardened as well, but having a choice would have been better.

digi_owl 11y ago
Or you could adopt any number of other inits that have much the same benefits as systemd-as-init, but without all the baggage. Frankly the reason systemd even gets attention is because the likes of Gnome needs a part of it, logind, to handle logins/sessions, and that it basically absorbed udev (after udev had existed as a independent project for a decade).