This needs to be stated yet again apparently - systemd is not one monolothic binary, it's a collection of tools in one repository.

Centrally developing many disparate pieces of software from one repository is what every BSD does so you can hardly argue that it's not "UNIX".

This is setting aside that systemd actually does all of those things better than the tools that came before. journalctl and systemd timers are fantastic. And good luck using the alternatives to manage cgroups.

A monolith does not necessarily mean a single binary.

Sometimes you want a different balance — say, in embedded systems. If you think about busybox, it does something similar, only doing a better job at looking like the traditional userland.

There is nothing bad about it. What I find bad is forcing everyone to jump on the same bandwagon, no matter which bandwagon. If I wanted choices made for me, I'd buy a Mac.

ugh, I was so excited when my POWER9 arrived... and then I started looking at the OpenBMC stack.