I think it&#x27;s a legitimate question.  Systemd seems more targeted towards desktop environments where things like D-BUS are needed.  I&#x27;m thinking of bastion server configurations using a distributions like CentOS where less is more. It may be worthwhile to use Sys-V which has less moving parts, fewer configuration options and thus fewer vulnerability points.  Not to say that systemd cannot be hardened as well, but having a choice would have been better.