[nickysielicki]

You don't have to be a sysadmin to think it's a bad idea for pid 1 to have a hard dependency on glibc.

It's a nightmare. And it's incredibly ironic that the solution seems to be that you should migrate to operating systems where the userland and kernel are coupled together.

And that's the crux of the argument against systemd. Is clean service management more important than portability? Of course not! Linux has always been interesting because it's portable, not because it's easy or streamlined or standardized.

[Qwertious]

"Linux has always been interesting because it's portable, not because it's easy or streamlined or standardized."

Pretty sure Tanenbaum would disagree. That said, I do agree that portability really is important. For that matter, I'd really like a decent FOSS microkernel.

[ben_bai]

Since you mentioned Tanenbaum. What about Minix 3, It's basically a new/modern Microkernel with the NetBSD userland.