Debian leader says users can continue with SysVinit

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Sam Varghese
Oct 13, 2014

Users of Debian GNU/Linux will be able to continue using SysVinit as their init system, despite the project having switched to systemd as the default, according to the leader of the Debian project.

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Sam Varghese

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