https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @08:23AM
> Try swapping out journald or timesyncd, to pick two out of several dozen services in that systemd tarbaby.
That's trivial:
systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd; systemctl stop systemd-timesyncd
Then install ntpd or whatever you want as an alternative.