> Who uses them, who works on them, what is their motivation for doing so? FreeBSD (and all the BSDs really) do not use systemd. > How do they compare to Linu

> Who uses them, who works on them, what is their motivation for doing so? FreeBSD (and all the BSDs really) do not use systemd. > How do they compare to Linux these days They don't use systemd. > How do they compare to Linux these days, in terms of size, feature set, security hardening, etc? Security harderning? They don't have systemd. So there's no backdoor in SSH because somehow sshd is linked to some compression library because a Microsoft employee decided Linux should use compressed logs. Really: no systemd is a big one.