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Linux Deepin, Ubuntu systemd and Licensing, and Red Flag Scuttled

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Feb 18, 2014

March Shuttleworth posted this morning that Ubuntu will be supporting systemd rather than its own Upstart initiation system. This comes a day after The Fridge ran a post explaining why derivative distributions must obtain a license from Ubuntu to use their packages. In other Linux news, Chinese distribution Red Flag has been discontinued. And finally today, Jack Wallen has published a review of Linux Deepin saying it just might steal your heart.

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