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Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader
New submitter mrons writes: Many new features are coming for systemd. This includes the ability to do a full secure boot. As Lennart Poettering mentions in a Google+ comment: "This is really just about providing the tools to implement the full trust chain from the firmware to the host OS, if SecureBoot is available. ... Of course, if you don't have EFI SecureBoot, than nothing changes. Also if you turn it off, than nothing changes either. [sic]" Phoronix notes, "Gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager that's been around for a few years but only receives new work from time-to-time. Lennart and Kay Sievers are looking at adding Gummiboot to systemd to complete the safety chain of the boot process with UEFI Secure Boot. Systemd will communicate with this UEFI boot loader to ensure the system didn't boot into a compromised state."
The difference is that SysAdmins hate SystemD and FreeBSD is primarily developed by SysAdmins. When FreeBSD has to solve the same problems that SystemD is hoping to solve, FreeBSD will do it in a way that SysAdmins will be more comfortable with.
SystemD is attempting to solve problems without understanding how they should best be solved. Get a decade or two of managing tens of thousands of servers, then come back and attempt to solve the problems, You'll probably do it a bit differently.