&gt;It&#x27;s about the consolidation of tools into a few monolithic binaries.<p>Could you go in to some detail here, what are the tools that have been turned in to monolithic binaries ?<p>The systemd project consists of some 70 different binaries, the vast majority of them being optional, and each of them handling specific tasks very much in the UNIX tradition.<p>They are being developed in the same tree, exactly like the BSD&#x27;s, and just like the BSD equivalents they want to make use of features the kernel can provide even if that makes it less portable.