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Debian May Be Leaning Towards Systemd Over Upstart

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 17th of January 2014 10:17:45 PM Filed under

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For months now the Debian Technical Committee has been tasked with deciding between systemd and Upstart for the future init system of the Linux distribution that also has a FreeBSD kernel port, etc. The debate has been long and ongoing. Among other opinions, Ian Jackson of the committee came out last month in favor of using Upstart while Russ Allberry came out in favor of systemd.

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