22 Jun 2024 09:20:50 Martin Steigerwald <martin@???>:

> According to my
> memory Lennart advertised Systemd as a init system replacement initially,

Perhaps on a mailing list but he calls it a system manager compatible with sysv and lsb init scripts according to this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100510005006/https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/