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Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart
jones_supa writes: After Debian adopted systemd, many other Linux distributions based on that operating system made the switch as well. Ubuntu has already rolled out systemd in 15.04, but Linux Mint is providing dual options for users. The Ubuntu transition was surprisingly painless, and no one really put up a fight, but the Linux Mint team chose the middle ground. The Mint developers consider that the project needs to still wait for systemd to become more stable and mature, before it will be the default and only option.
Quoting from the b log at http://0pointer.net/blog/proje...t/blog/proje... [0pointer.net]
> A Stateless System goes one step further: a system like this never stores /etc or /var on persistent storage, but always comes up with pristine vendor state.
Why not quote the very next sentence, too?
> On systems like this every reboot acts as factory reset.
That is a _huge_ shift in system management
Yes, for the better.
and directly violates the file system hierarchy where host specific configurations are stored in /etc or persistent data in /var/lib
Funny, could've sworn it was SysV that has a mess of distro default scripts and settings all under /etc, unlike what systemd is trying to do with distro defaults under /usr and just the site/host specific configuration in /etc