SYSTEMD HAS BEEN A COMPLETE, UTTER, UNMITIGATED SUCCESS

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Before systemd, developers were using init scripts of varying quality with janky dependencies and wildly varying semantics. This article looks at how systemd has changed the Linux landscape. It looks at the problems with init, the features systemd introduced, and other ways systemd changed the development process. systemd has largely been a success story and it proved many dire forecasts wrong.