Shuttleworth says Ubuntu will switch to systemd | Linux Today

Shuttleworth says Ubuntu will switch to systemd

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Sam Varghese
Feb 17, 2014

The head of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution and the creator of the upstart init system, has announced that it will switch its init system to the Red Hat-developed systemd.

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Sam Varghese

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