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LWN (Linux Weekly News) provides a written account of Benno Rice's talk. The former FreeBSD core developer gives some context around systemd and what FreeBSD should learn from it. He compares the affair to a Greek tragedy which contains much suffering followed by catharsis. His attitude toward systemd is generally not negative, but I won't cherry-pick any specific sections; you'll have to actually read the article for once.
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(Score: 1) by warsen on Saturday February 09 2019, @08:30AM
To start with, let me say I am not a fan of SystemD, mainly because of the dev's attitude, as well as the monoculture it is creating. pTamok and others have articulated these points very well.
I have a different point to make here. Looking at the comments on LWN and comparing it to what I see here on soylent, I can, subjectively, see that the LWN audience is much more willing to jump to systemd's defense. Of course, LWN's editor is, and always has been, partial to systemd, to the extent that I have stopped thinking of him as a journalist, and more as just another developer with a viewpoint.
Anyway, I find the responses on Soylent much more diverse, and much more reasoned. Of course some of that may be confirmation bias on my part, but not entirely.