Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.
One of the main blockers we found as we collaborate more closely with KDE and GNOME developers is that they have a hard time with our OpenRC-based stack. In order to get KDE and GNOME working at all, we use a lot of systemd
On the other hand, by supporting systemd, we reduce the friction and problems that KDE and GNOME developers face currently, they build their UIs to work with systemd and so we can run them as they intended to. The APIs provided by systemd are actually needed to run a modern smartphone UI on Linux: there isn't really an alternative out there.for years, but it still isn't here. is basically on life support anyway, and the maintainers primarily focus on Gentoo use-cases.
Another demonstration is that what's left of the commercial Unix world moved away from script-based init systems nearly 20 years ago: Solaris 10back in 2022. The basic idea is to bring older smartphones back to life, after they're no longer supported with updates from their manufacturers, by running a standard Linux OS on them. On the face of it, this is a good idea., and came away impressed.