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Ah. So MM's still in the sidelines and IBM still pulling strings, so little chance of ditching fucking systemd in Fedora, and thus RedHat. That's the one good thing I can see from a regime change: improvement of the codebase by, for example, pruning pet projects when the pets leave for Microsoft.
Not sure why the downvotes on this? Systemd is bloated and known to present security risks. Don't see why looking at alternatives wouldn't be seen as positive growth.
Systemd is both in a lot more large distros than just Fedora, RHEL and has limited viable alternatives (OpenRC as a partial replacement, no others I can think of that come close). While it has its issues particularly with the extra bundled services of mixed quality, SystemD is generally a flexible and suitable option for service management on Linux.
Not to mention how inflammatory the parent comment is.