IMO: the article is wrong. Many of the reason that systemd is hated are technical. And those technical reasons have expressed, and then ignored, many times.

> You seem to be speaking for "the community", but I don't see any hard numbers suggesting that the majority of said community actually shares your opinions. Just because many voices cry out and cry loudly, does not make those voices representative of anything meaningful.

What about the other way around? SystemD advocates constantly try to dismiss those who criticize SystemD as a tiny handful of UNIX greybeards. I have yet to see any evidence of that being the case.

It very much seems to me that SystemD is pushed on all Linux by a tiny handful of Red Hat marketing execs.

Debian went with SystemD because they believed a systemd takeover was inevitable. Slackware is considering systemd for the same reason.

this is.

1) You always need five years of recent, verifiable, professional experience. Don't take my word for it, look at the ads.

2) The experience needs to be in about six different technologies, and every employer has a different list. Often the required skills are not even related to computers, i.e. HVAC tech - seriously, I've seen that, more than once.

3) Over 35 is considered very old.

Also, remember that employers are shipping jobs offshore as fast as they possibly can. And the jobs they cannot ship offshore are to be filled with visa workers.

Yeah, three months of coding training, sure, that'll do it.

Good luck.

"Crimes?"

Maybe a technicality, but isn't copyright violation a civil matter, and not a crime?

I'm guessing it's the apps. OpenBSD is probably great for servers, but does not have all the desktop apps as Linux.

Or, maybe I'm wrong.

I am really hating Red Hat's hostile takeover of Linux. I may consider a BSD.

Also: Chomebooks are know for very fast boot, and great battery life.

> If you are telling me systemd boots up my system faster, then you've just convinced me to use systemd.

Good lord, more crap about fast booting, as if that's some huge issue. It's not.

You think there is nothing more to performance than fast booting? No concerns about security, or stability?

You do not know what you are posting about.

I worked as a developer, and an admin. Admins are way more than users with root access. I doubt you would last a day as an admin.

> From the perspective of my business

Speak for yourself then. I think most Linux users want Linux to be honestly open, and free. Most Linux users do not want Linux to be another Windows, or Solaris.

> not having free Linux is fairly immaterial, as the costs of supporting it and the multitude of applications we run on it far outstrip the cost of the OS.

Why not run AIX, or Solaris? Linux is for people who want free - there are many alternatives for people who prefer the proprietary model.

Redhay is using MS's playbook.

- Systemd seems a lot like Microsoft's OOXML strategy: say it's open, when it's really controlled by one company. Claim that users demanded it

- Hide everything in a binary blob

- Embrace monoculture

- Do not play well with others - especially UNIX

- There can only be one and so you must win at any cost

- Replace accepted standards with *your* standard

- Embrace, extend and extinguish because the people responsible for it have a culture which wants that

- Adopt Borg philosophy: resistance is futile, we have already won, why are you arguing?

- Be intensely hubristic: systemd is the best, therefore systemd is superior to all other systems, therefore systemd should to the jobs that other systems do.

Seems like Linux could standardize without radically changing everything.

Seems like Red Hat breaks real standards. And replaces those standards with Red Hat standards. And then says "hey look, we've standardized things (and we've done it in such a way that now Red Hat can take over Linux! Yay!).

You are manufacturing special situations to support your conclusion.

Are you kidding about the server? If a service is critical, the cost of an extra server is nothing. Also, if you are running all the stuff you say you, how "under utilized" could the server be?

Linux has it's problems - no doubt about it. But boot time would rarely top the list. SystemD is solving a problem that is not there. The radical changes that are required to utilize systemd are not justified, not by a long shot.

> we should also condemn people "jokingly" saying they're gonna put a hitman on anyone.

I agree. But we need a sense of perspective as well. I have received death threats. Lots of people have.

There is a guy named Pat Condell who posts videos on youtube that are critical of Islam, he get hundreds of death threats.

I agree that death threats are not cool. But they are really not all that shocking either.