[tbortels]

Yes, pity. The lack of systemd is a major driver for use of Amazon Linux for us and our efforts to get away from Red Hat. We won't be adopting AL 2 because of this (not if I can help it anyway). I had actually thought that AL not adopting systemd was a sign of clue, but it seems it was just slowness. Let's hope they leave the original AL around long enough to find alternatives we can trust.

[lykr0n]

Systemd, for all its flaws, is vastly superior to sysvinit. Running from it is only delaying the inevitable.

Red Hat is not systemd. You'll find it in Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE, Arch, and RHEL/CentOS/Scientific.