> SystemD has something of a reputation for being a bunch of arrogant young engineers making fundamental changes to the long established status quo in order to

> SystemD has something of a reputation for being a bunch of arrogant young engineers making fundamental changes to the long established status quo in order to solve clever problems that range from tiny-minority-edge-case to non-existent. With all due respect, but this is bullshit. The devs that started and are working on systemd are clearly veterans of linux system programming and understand quite well the ins and outs of initializing a linux machine. Unless by some chance you're a gray beard that was working on posix in the eighties, I would give the title of veteran to Lennart and the gang.