What's so painful about systemd? Seriously.

I heard Android is open source. Why don't you change it back if you like it better that way?

Distributions are free to choose whichever init system they want to support. A lot of them choose systemd because it is better than everything that came before it. As simple as that. There is no big conspiracy going on. It's better, that's why it's used. Get over it.

Lennart does not decide what init system distributions choose to use. Distributions choose systemd because it is better than all that came before it.

It already works that way. If you build systemd with all features enabled you end up with something like 70 binaries or so.

That's why distributions support their releases for some time, 5-10 years usually depending on the distribution. If you give it some time these bugs that you think of will go away. I have not run into them, I guess I'm lucky.

Remember this before ranting too much on Lennart. He is not in any position to force any distribution to do anything. Distributions choose to use his software because it actually is better than the stuff that came before it.

Really? For most users all systemd means is that there are some new commands that you can use if you want. Not a big deal at all.

Because a lot of software depend on Systemd, and it's quite handy to use the stuff that software depends on when you want to put it in your distribution.

This happens every time something happens. Some people always hate everything.

Do they still only rebuild packages once per week? They used to do that when pkgng was new and waiting up to a week for an update was a bit too long.

Yes.

Defragging the hard drive and updating the AV scanner? I thought that wasn't even necessary on Windows anymore.

GnuTLS is just one of the supported TLS toolkits. It uses the Security framework on OS X, and SChannel on Windows.