systemd is great, since I started using it about a year ago, never looked back. I like the fact that with a single service file, I have: well... services, servi

systemd is great, since I started using it about a year ago, never looked back. I like the fact that with a single service file, I have: well... services, services with dependencies, logging, automatic restarts, timers (no more cron, yay), sane pre-start, post-start and such. Show me a viable, repeatably working alternative, I might consider. Until then I really don't care if it's the "UNIX philosophy". I used upstart, init and runit before. runit was close but there was just so much fiddling with it. Upstart kinda worked. init is init. systemd just works - it does one thing well: allows me to launch my services reliably without having to install, configure and maintain tons of little fiddly bits to make the system work.