> The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)?

I still see no counterarguments here. Meanwhile, systemd, like cancer, is eating Linux from the inside, breaking its flexibility and therefore future resilence:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918448

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889792

I've come around. And I used to be a serious djb cultist who used

https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

for any service I ran that I cared about or was responsible for (not shovelware that came with the Linux distro.) Of course I liked qmail too and used it to build something that's nearly indescribable but was kinda like a webcrawler but for email and could send and receive emails to do information gathering and dissemination tasks asynchronously over a long time.

Yeah, OK. The same way Windows has been a success I guess.

I would be less anxious on the question if another OS adopted it.

It is fantastic for Linux, but it is not really portable.

I think there was an attempt at OpenBSD.

https://lobste.rs/s/jx3cr6/initware_systemd_fork_runs_on_ope...

Yes, this is indeed a problem. I'd love systemd running on OpenBSD/others, and wouldn't need to create a new init system if it did. There needs to be one cross platform one that's capable.