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Systemd fallout: Joey Hess quits Debian project

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Sam Varghese
Nov 10, 2014

The Debian GNU/Linux project chose systemd, the brainchild of Red Hat’s Lennart Poettering, as its default init system in February, to replace SysV. The decision came through a casting vote by Bdale Garbee who is head of the technical committee which had been tasked with making the choice.

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