Would it be possible for you to cover the pros and cons related to Systemd.
I would of thought that Richard Stallman would of published his opinion on systemd.. I would also like to find out if Trisquel will be adopting systemd (if it has not done already)..
The following is a description from a hacker friend who is an experienced admin for Arch.. I have also added a link to a developer called Ignorant Guru who does not like Systemd; I would ask for you not to brush this under the carpet as I have tried to pose this question to three people who are "authorities" in this area but they have not responded..
"IMHO, SystemD is the most infuritating thing to darken the Linux world I have ever encountered. It's like somebody decided Entropy was a winning design philosophy and ran with it. The initial selling point was greater improved boot speed by allowing dependency based parallel starting of system daemons. Now booting any system with it feels like a chore as it chews through things with random delays waiting for other things that it decides are unhappy when they're fine and who knows, because debugging it not as simple as just reading the log file... you've got to futz around with its syntax and modules that throw convention out the window. Creating your own init scripts for custom shiz is no longer as simple as just sticking a short text file in a standard to every system location and throwing the switch. It now involves creating multiple files and learning a whole new syntax and paradigm that seems to exist only to make the task as complicated as possible. I've yet to meet anybody who's looked at the code and honestly been able to say they understand whats going on under the hood. I've heard that its the personal baby of some aspie whos beyond even sharing its terrible secrets with those outside of his immediate earshot. It's flying completely against the modularity and interdepency principles of the POSIX model. Swallowing up everything thats in its way, to turn the entire stack into an interdependent spaghetti nightmare. It's an approach of DaemonX Doesn't work in a way that fits the devs mental paradigm, so DaemonX is bad and must be surplanted with a puppet Daemon that tows the party line. If it were a government... It would speak to you in Italian."
The link that I mentioned http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/gentoo-systemd-torvalds/
