You're trying to tell us that, prior to systemd, Gentoo was a terrible choice for base images? Embedded wants parallel startup gains, sure, but there are video

You're trying to tell us that, prior to systemd, Gentoo was a terrible choice for base images? Embedded wants parallel startup gains, sure, but there are videos floating around youtube of embedded systems booting linux kernels and a full GNU base system in less than a second using init scripts. Why the hell would you want a non-predictible bootup (which systemd does in the name of "speed in bootup") on an embedded system? All my KVM/Qemu VM's are currently gentoo (and arch+OpenRC) based. most use less than 10MB total. systemd requires more than 5 times that amount by default. CoreOS starts with gentoo and then strips it further, and it doesn't use systemd at all. Gentoo (minus systemd) is the base of ChromeOS and ChromiumOS. You had to have known that. I refuse to believe that you're one of the lucky 10,000 XKCD talks about. Your post, and the main article, are just quiet astroturfing/zealotry. You guys have plenty of distributions. We heard Lennart's "wake-up call", and ignored it, because he was leading the march towards a new operating system. We like GNU. We don't particularly like/need/want the Violate-GPL-Over-RPC functionality system Poettering implemented in PID1. Gentoo is not denying choice. We're denying you guys the right to have systemd be a default. The safest distros (Void, Gentoo, Calculate) are all avoiding systemd on purpose. You certainly have the choice to compromise your system and taint your GNU system, but don't expect your silly march off the cliff to become the default for those of us left with actual GNU systems.