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Many distros adopted systemd and left init why does Ubuntu still use init?

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  • Last I heard, the transition fully to systemd was slated for soem way through the 15.04 dev cycle, but that may have just been rumor
    – Thomas Ward ♦
    Nov 23, 2014 at 15:04
  • I'm just wondering why not directly endorse systemd? Isn't it better that init?
    – user284659
    Nov 23, 2014 at 15:08
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    Ubuntu is in transition from Unity to systemd. Debian has not fully implimented systemd yet. Fedora is one that uses systemd as much as any, and fedora still uses init .See fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd . There are a ever decreasing number of boot scripts that still use init scripts
    – Panther
    Nov 23, 2014 at 15:19
  • @bodhi.zazen: Don't you mean Upstart instead of Unity?
    – David Foerster
    Nov 23, 2014 at 16:08
  • Question does not make sense. systemd is is (an) init.
    – psusi
    Nov 23, 2014 at 22:39

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As far as I am aware, there has been no additional movement on systemd vs. upstart vs System V Init in the mailing lists for 15.04. There was a summit meeting on this during the last Ubuntu Online Summit for developers, as seen here. As far as I am aware, that was the last set of discussion on the issue. It is likely there has not been any further movement on the issue since then.

Also, some discussion-point notes can be found on here: http://pad.ubuntu.com/uos-1411-systemd-transition (but you'll need a Launchpad account that has access to the etherpad to view this).

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  • You mean systemd vs upstart right? Both are different forms of init.
    – psusi
    Nov 23, 2014 at 22:40
  • @psusi yes, however I was quoting the OP at the time.
    – Thomas Ward ♦
    Nov 23, 2014 at 23:30

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