[clue] systemd - uh, wot's the deal?

[Sean LeBlanc]

So, having sort of been heads down on doing mostly bog-standard RHEL 
stuff (when I do *nix at work, anyway: at home I'm using OSX on laptop, 
and FreeNAS and Ubuntu server. There are also other *nixes at work, but 
mostly they've been something I've set up and then tend to leave alone 
as they don't need care and feeding) I've seen murmurings from the 
bowels of the Internet (mostly on Diaspora) about systemd, and that's it 
is controversial, etc.

But I don't fully understand all the concerns, counter-arguments in its 
favor, etc.

Can anyone point me to some good reading on the topic? I'm also 
interested in opinions from the old hands of CLUE, because I know some 
people have been using Linux *as* sys- or net- admins for so long (being 
mostly dev in my day job, I don't use it quite the same way).