Linux Mint 18 Could Adopt Systemd
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:49 am* The Linux Mint project is using Ubuntu as its base and there is even a branch that's using Debian, but it looks that for the moment it won't be using systemd as the default init system.
* Ubuntu has already adopted systemd for 15.04 and it can be used right now, but the Linux Mint developers are not talking this step just yet and it will be quite a while until that will happen.
* It's unlikely that the Linux Mint 17.x branch will see the introduction of systemd, or at least this is what the leader of the project is saying in this monthly update.
* Linux Mint is one of the most used operating systems in the world and it's basically the second one after Ubuntu, so it's easy to understand why the community is interesting in this aspect. It's not clear what will happen when the Linux Mint fans will be confronted with this issue.
* The first thing you need to know about the Linux Mint 17.x branch is that is using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a base.
* The Ubuntu developer are only introducing systemd to the 15.04 branch. It doesn't mean that the Mint developers can't implemented it right now, but they are probably waiting the next LTS, which will arrive in April, 2016.
* We already know that the Ubuntu-based version won't be getting systemd, but neither will the Debian-based one.
* "Similar to Linux Mint 17.x, LMDE 2 "Betsy" will be using the traditional sysvinit. The move to systemd could happen with Linux Mint 18 and LMDE 3, giving this new technology and the Linux ecosystem 2 years (or more) to mature and to iron out integration and compatibility issues," wrote the leader of the Linux Mint project, Clement Lefebvre.
* Ubuntu has already adopted systemd for 15.04 and it can be used right now, but the Linux Mint developers are not talking this step just yet and it will be quite a while until that will happen.
* It's unlikely that the Linux Mint 17.x branch will see the introduction of systemd, or at least this is what the leader of the project is saying in this monthly update.
* Linux Mint is one of the most used operating systems in the world and it's basically the second one after Ubuntu, so it's easy to understand why the community is interesting in this aspect. It's not clear what will happen when the Linux Mint fans will be confronted with this issue.
* The first thing you need to know about the Linux Mint 17.x branch is that is using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a base.
* The Ubuntu developer are only introducing systemd to the 15.04 branch. It doesn't mean that the Mint developers can't implemented it right now, but they are probably waiting the next LTS, which will arrive in April, 2016.
* We already know that the Ubuntu-based version won't be getting systemd, but neither will the Debian-based one.
* "Similar to Linux Mint 17.x, LMDE 2 "Betsy" will be using the traditional sysvinit. The move to systemd could happen with Linux Mint 18 and LMDE 3, giving this new technology and the Linux ecosystem 2 years (or more) to mature and to iron out integration and compatibility issues," wrote the leader of the Linux Mint project, Clement Lefebvre.