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I mention boot time because it's what's pointed at specifically by Poettering in his arguments for systemd as its core benefit: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html

The other functionality may be nice, but 1) it's got no place in init and 2) really complicates a key piece of system infrastructure. Complexity and change are the two dual enemies of stability. As an old-fart ops type, with scars on my hide and notches on my belt, I really hate both change and complexity. The mess with my nines.

Arch and Fedora are relatively wide of my usual ambit, but I've learned in my years to be wary of what others ask for -- you may get it and have to live with the consequences (see: GNOME).

So. Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical.



One great benefit to stability is the amount of users. Sysvinit was different in every distribution. With systemd, almost everything is shared.

This results in way more users and developers looking at systemd. As a result, less bugs.





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