Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On a LUG mailing list, I revealed my opinions of systemd. Their systemd
> aficionados of course trivialized me and my opinions, we've seen it all
> before. Now one of those aficionados recommends we have somebody to
> speak on systemd, and recommended Leonnart Poettering. Of course.
>
> I'd like to recommend somebody, hopefully in a United States time zone,
> who can authoritatively refute all the systemd bullshit. I don't mean
> from a practical viewpoint; I could do that. I mean from a
> byte-for-byte viewpoint.
>
> If you know of an authority who fits the bill, please let me know.
>
>
Well.. Gentoo is pretty popular, and goes with rc - systemd optional. 
Someone there might have a few things to say.

Someone at Alpine.

And then there's Slackware - the oldest distro - folks there don't use
systemd.

And, of course, the BSD distros don't use it.

Cheers,

Miles Fidelman

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Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
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