&gt;Interest in FreeBSD seems to be on the rise, with the advent of systemd.<p>I don&#x27;t buy this, why would someone who complains about the consolidation and standardisation of core tools&#x2F;services in Linux want to move to FreeBSD which does exactly the same as it is a full operating system and only supports what they ship, anything else you are on your own, just like what we get with standardising around systemd across distros.<p>The choice&#x2F;flexibility which is potentially lost if the entire Linux ecosystem embraces systemd was never available on FreeBSD in the first place, what standardising around systemd is doing is moving Linux distros closer to one of the often touted advantages of choosing one of the BSD distros, which is a standard set of core tools&#x2F;services which can be targeted (however in Linux&#x27;s case it is across distros as opposed to the BSD&#x27;s where it is per-OS).