I read a couple posts about systemd on this blog the first time the "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" article showed up on HN. Reading these articles made a bad impression on me about systemd. However, then I followed the links to the mailing lists and found the picture the author painted exaggerated and at times inaccurate.<p>I, for one, am happy that there finally emerges a common (across Linux distros) "system layer" that applications can depend on. POSIX is often not enough.
If systemd is as bad as people say, why did every major distro adopt it?<p>Honestly, it has been so dramatic to read about this - why did it go through almost everywhere if there are such concerns? Are the concerns unfounded?