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Quoting:I predict in the next 3 years Slackware will switch to systemd as well. Patrick will play it ultra conservative but I believe that the work to not adopt systemd will eventually outweigh the work to adopt systemd. Just my hunch.

Quoting:Fedora, OpenSuSE, Arch and Mageia have already made the choice to use systemd, and it is getting excellent upstream support for a growing number of packages.

Quoting:* Other distributions who switched to systemd were also confronted to a lot of controversy before the switch. After it became clear that rivers didn’t turn into blood, the complaints have only been sporadic.

Quoting:Let's hope systemd gets some additional development... I'm skeptical it will be 100% ready (i.e.: security bugs, etc.) very soon...

Quoting:Ian: “A friend of mine mentioned to me in the pub that he had seem alarming reports of systemd security bugs.”

* Most of these bugs have been found by the Red Hat Product security team conducting an audit of the code as part of its inclusion in their enterprise distribution. Therefore, systemd's security record cannot reasonably be compared with implementations that didn’t undergo similar audits.

* It is unreasonable to expect any software project to be entirely bug-free. The interesting facts are that systemd’s architecture is designed in a secure way, that upstream developers know how to respond to security vulnerabilities, and that the code has actually been audited.

* Less security bugs have been found in sysvinit or upstart, but this number is not necessarily correlated to the number of actual bugs, most of which might still be unknown. The comparison makes even less sense when you take into account systemd’s larger scope. Most security bugs do not apply if you restrict systemd to the features already found in other init systems. More functionality means a larger attack surface, which is a drawback we usually accept when we need the features.

* Using systemd helps mitigating or eliminating other security issues, by bringing new security features to all daemons running on the system. Switching to systemd is a security improvement for the whole system.