On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:42:06 +1200, gb wrote:
systemd has been mired in controversy since they began bullying their way into every corner of linux ....
I have no idea how a Free Software project can “bully” its way into “every corner of Linux” ... which as you know is also a Free Software project. Which means you are Free to use it or not, as you choose. Some people choose not to use it, many others prefer it.
... unless you've been hiding under a Waikato river rock the controversy hasn't been difficult to miss. It is well documented in many articles ...
I see a lot of claims about a “controversy”, but it seems to be a lot of smoke with no fire. For example, repeated assertions that systemd is monolithic when in fact it is very modular, and you can build just the pieces you need (like with the Linux kernel, which suffered similar criticisms from the microkernel crowd in earlier times). systemd has become popular because it solves a whole lot of outstanding problems under one elegantly unified architecture. Like any piece of Free software, it has to succeed on its own merits, it has no big corporate backer with marketing muscle comparable to Microsoft or whoever to force it down the throats of people.