[$] Distributors ponder a systemd change

Linux users tend to pride themselves on their position at the leading edgeof a fast-moving development community. But, in truth, much of what we dois rooted in many decades of Unix tradition, and we tend to get grumpy whenyoung developers show up and start changing things around. A recent change ofdefault in systemd represents such a change and the kind of response thatit brings out; as a result, Linux distributors are going to have to make adecision on whether they should preserve the way things have always workedor make a change that, while potentially disruptive to users, is arguably astep toward more predictable, controllable, and secure behavior.