Comment Re:Go back in time 5 years (Score 5, Interesting) 581
There are long term non-systemd distributions. Crux and Alpine for example. The mainstream distributions are having it foisted on them by upstream because open source developers do think it is that good. This isn't about system admins.
The sysadmins are the meal ticket of developers. For years now, we've been saying we don't want systemd unless it can be made compatible and standalone. Now Red Hat calls me and wonders why I choose to install RHEL 6 on new systems, given that RHEL 7 is out. Why? Because we told you in advance what we wanted, and you chose not to listen.
Sysadmins are in a position to choose their operating systems. The developers are not in a position to choose their customers.