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_blk | on: A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console
Imdeed. Ubuntu tried its own upstart for a while, and there were a few others too. Gentoo has (had?) some alternatives to sysV.. Devuan felt like boycotting systemd. Didn't seem to help stop the spread but at least you could use something else if you wanted. Systemd is indeed a bit of a mini OS under the OS. We came a long way but I also feel that the improvements didn't necessarily result in faster boots.
simoncion | parent | next
> Gentoo has (had?) some alternatives to sysV.

You're probably thinking of OpenRC. It's quite nice and remains the distro's default init system.

aniou | parent
Yep. I remember upstart, as well as some really neat soft-lockups, when a system gone "bricked", even without console, in result of bad-written network address :)

To be honest, from very beginning I viewed both (upstart and systemd) as dead-ends. Dependencies? Meh, rcorder in NetBSD has local dependencies years ago and, for larger installations, local-only dependency system has no value - because my app needs mysql... on another server. And modern init and supervision suite (systemd) without concept of inter-network dependecy? Meh. Like... let me think... a project of modern desktop without concept of remote work in eve of remote work explosion and covid times too - or something like that.

Supervising? I already had daemontools, monit, runit and whatever else (not mentioning s6) - even nowadays I really don't see cases, when systemd is used to restart services automatically.