[Trisquel-users] Re : Systemd

[magicbanana]

systemd is free software (under the GNU LGPL). That is probably all rms cares  
about. As Michał Masłowski tells, it brings many new interesting features  
and is a definite improvement upon the old System V init, which was not  
designed for modern computer (with hot-plugging, multi-core processors to  
start init scripts in parallel, etc.).

The discussion was more about systemd vs. Upstart (developed by Canonical).  
systemd won and Upstart will soon stop being developed. All mainstream  
GNU/Linux distributions have now chosen systemd: Fedora (and the next RHEL  
7), Arch Linux (by the way: you probably want to switch to Parabola), Gentoo  
(although it is not the default yet), openSUSE, Mageia, and, more recently  
Debian and Ubuntu (that admitted the failure to push Upstart after Debian,  
its base, decided to switch to systemd). Trisquel, based on Ubuntu, will  
follow. Slackware, which is known to be very slow to adopt new technologies,  
is, to the best of my knowledge, the only major distribution that did not  
announce the switch. They will certainly make it later.