Also, I highly recommend reading Lennart Poettering's initial description of systemd on his blog [1]. It lays out the paradigms behind systemd design really wel

Also, I highly recommend reading Lennart Poettering's initial description of systemd on his blog [1]. It lays out the paradigms behind systemd design really well. I think that it is important to understand the problems that systemd is trying to solve in order to evaluate whether it is doing it's job well. [1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html