Systemd 197 released

No idea what you are talking about. Personally, I perceive your "monolithic" as "unified". What this has to do with Microsoft escapes me, and in any case you are free to use any boot and logging system you like (several distributions support alternative boot systems).

For me, systemctl is much nicer to use than random init scripts, and journalctl much more convenient than the traditional Unix chaos of randomly formatted logfiles.

So I highly welcome Poetterings work on this, which is much more useful than your comment that Linux is morphed by him into Windows (whatever that means).