Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday

jones_supa writes: Ubuntu is going live with systemd, reports Martin Pitt in the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list. Next Monday, Vivid (15.04) will be switched to boot with systemd instead of UpStart. The change concerns desktop, server, and all other current flavors. Technically, this will flip around the preferred dependency of init to systemd-sysv | upstart in package management, which will affect new installs, but not upgrades. Upgrades will be switched by adding systemd-sysv to ubuntu-standard's dependencies. If you want, you can manually do the change already, but it's advisable to do an one-time boot first. Right now it is important that if you run into any trouble, file a proper bug report in Launchpad (ubuntu-bug systemd). If after some weeks it is found that there are too many or too big regressions, Ubuntu can still revert back to UpStart.

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Re:What is systemd exactly?

[jedidiah]

> Unfortunately slashdot is filled with armchair sysadmins

Nope. Slashdot is filled with people that have been using multiple Unixen since the 80s as well as genuine sysadmins of various kinds. Many of us find systemd problematic just because of the way it's designed.

The term "defective by design" comes to mind.