Why, yes, I could clobber together my own server distribution with multilog and obscure init systems and whatnot, or… I could just use the distribution default, which <i>massively</i> improved over the old status quo with the introduction of systemd.<p>&gt; The journal is prone to fragmentation, though it can be capped just as most sane loggers like multilog can.<p>So my choices are a) systemd + journald, which Just Works™ by always feeding units&#x27; stdout to it without any further configuration, b) syslog and logrotate and oh I have to patch software to use syslog in the first place and make sure logrotate rotates the files correctly if a daemon still its logfile open and… yeah, screw that, I&#x27;ve wasted enough of my life with that, c) <i>something</i> where I manually set up everything to use multilog.<p>&gt; Redundant complaints, and irrelevant<p>From your ivory tower, maybe. Meanwhile I&#x27;m sitting in the trenches and banging my head against the wall because someone again managed to break their 300+ line init script (hi, MySQL!).<p>&gt; Incorrect.<p>I did not mean failure cases. The <i>average</i> case, where every service starts up in a correct order on sysvinit&#x2F;systemd, went from ~60 seconds to &lt;20. Now, a reboot is usually faster than the failover timeout.<p>And unlike with Debian&#x27;s &quot;dependency-based sysvinit&quot;, systemd <i>works</i>. I&#x27;ve yet to see a failure case that wasn&#x27;t caused by either hardware failure or gross operator error (e.g. referencing &#x2F;var wrong in the fstab).<p>&gt; Incorrect.<p>Well, it looks I have to throw away my perfectly working networkd setups then, if you say so.<p>&gt; NetworkManager<p>I wasn&#x27;t even talking about that. I was mainly referring to Debian&#x27;s networking scripts (which have been broken and unfixed for half a decade now) and Arch&#x27;s netcfg&#x2F;netctl which all three never worked as advertised. If NetworkManager was actually usable on headless devices, I might prefer it over networkd, too (assuming I find a use case where either it or connman are insufficient).