Write a better init system than systemd. Done many times. ...Oh, wait. You mean to tell me that systemd isn't just an init system? And that it includes, but

Write a better init system than systemd. Done many times. ...Oh, wait. You mean to tell me that systemd isn't just an init system? And that it includes, but is not limited to, and I quote [1]: "init system, journal logging, login management, device management, temporary and volatile file management, binary format registration, backlight save/restore, rfkill save/restore, bootchart, readahead, encrypted storage setup, EFI/GPT partition discovery, virtual machine/container registration, minimal container management, hostname management, locale management, time management, random seed management, sysctl variable management, console managment, . . ." They are working on: "network management, Local DNS cache, mDNS responder, LLMNR responder, DNSSEC verification, IPC in the kernel, time synchronisation with NTP, stateless systems, factory reset, OS/container/app image format, sandboxing of services and apps..." [1] http://0pointer.de/public/gnomeasia2014.pdf http://0pointer.de/public/gnomeasia2014.pdf So what people really mean by "Write a better init system." is "Write a second, competing hulking mammoth like systemd."