[skrebbel]

As an outsider, it frightens me how many flamewars Linux people can start over a single program. How many years has this systems soap opera been going on now?

Maybe I only see the outbursts, but it seems to me like there's way too much emotion and way too little honest discussion going on. Why is that?

[chronid]

The debate around systemd is not only technical, but also highly political. Systemd is a shift towards the "aggregation" of many separate projects/components of the linux core userland (udev, polkit, wayland, logging, session management, etc) in a way that's highly incompatible with everything else. Some people like this new way forward (or don't care much), some do not. The attitude and the history of some developers of systemd do nothing to help (same thing for their "wakeup calls").

And this is even before talking about systemd proper in a technical-ish way...