Now Ubuntu Does A Debian, Adopts System Decision

Ubuntu will follow Debian in using systemd instead of its own Upstart.    Saturday, February 15, 2014:  Ending months of speculation and heated debate, Ubuntu has decided to follow Debian in using systemd instead of its own Upstart for Linux start-up and shutdown processes.Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth made the formal announcement for the same. System Decision will now replace the old Unix/Linux init daemon. The same oversees the operating system's start-up and shutdown routines. It must be noted that Ubuntu was pitching in for its Upstart program, meanwhile, Red Hat and SUSE were supporting systemd. In the end, Ubuntu did a Debian and voted for systemd. Earlier the Debian technical committee completed a vote on what init system to use as the default in Debian's upcoming jessie release. The committee charged with solving technical disputes within the Debian project finally narrowed down on systemd. systemd beat the likes of Canonical's upstart, sysvinit (the existing default in Debian) and Gentoo-backed openrc. It must be noted that systemd is a modern, default init system of many Linux distros that significantly decreases boot times on Linux systems. At the same time it is tightly integrated to solely Linux. It makes use of features unique to Linux, such as cgroups.

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