There are parallels with city planning. systemd reminds me of the efforts in some cities at clearing 'slums' to replace them with 'modern' apartment blocks.[1]

There are parallels with city planning. systemd reminds me of the efforts in some cities at clearing 'slums' to replace them with 'modern' apartment blocks.[1] sytemd seems like a similar technocratic, modernist effort aimed at UNIX. Operating systems are kind of like cities. One the surface they are often inefficient and messy, and people often wish they could come in and make them logical and rational, but people live in those cities and neighbourhoods, and sometimes the postbox is where it is for a reason. If Jane Jacobs[2] were around, she could write a book called: "The Death and Life of Great American Operating Systems" [1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry_Hill,_Leeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry_Hill,_Leeds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=862&v=Dxr2tEGlWUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=862&v=Dxr2tEGlWU... [2] https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/against-modernist-nightmare-legacy-urbanist-jane-jacobs-2185 https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/against-modernist-nightmar...