« systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 8 July, 2025 1,782 words 7 minute read time Figure 1: The systemd wars of the tenties were harsh and casualties were many The year is 2013 and I am hopping mad. systemd is replacing my plaintext logs with a binary format and pumping steroids into init and it is laughing at me. The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)? The year is 2025 and I’m here to repent. Not only is systemd a...