I think systemd is too much complicated and thus error prone. And so does SysV init. In terms of reliability it should be as simple as possible. What I really like is the the idea of runsv [1] – the init itself does almost nothing. Even the simple things like respawning of the processes are handled by external daemons. This is what I call unix way and what I think is the most future proof (what if D-Bus become obsolete etc etc). And as other people said – I'm afraid of systemd even more because it was written by the same person as Pulse Audio was. PA didn't work very well for quite a long time. I'm not going to argue about that (it's just my personal opinion and none of you will change it), but I just don't believe someone who wrote a piece of crap which took several years to become generally usable will suddenly write something so delightful so it can be used as a replacement of one of the most tested and most established things in Unix/Linux world. [1] http://busybox.net/~vda/init_vs_runsv.html
