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posted by LaminatorX on Monday April 06 2015, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the "Yet" dept.

Despite the previous announcement at the Ubuntu Wiki, that said

Martin Pitt announces the date to switch Ubuntu Vivid to boot with systemd instead of upstart as Monday, March 9th. He says that the switch will affect the desktop, server, cloud, all flavors but not Ubuntu Touch, and that if there are too many regressions there is a simple upload to revert to upstart.

regarding Lubuntu, the Ubuntu Wiki now reports

LXQt is still in development, so Vivid Vervet [(*buntu 15.04, slated for release in April)] is another bug fix release. A late regression in the desktop installer for 32 bit means there is no Desktop installer for this milestone but it does not affect the alternate installer. Systemd is not the default init system.

LXQt is a light-ish desktop environment built with the Qt toolkit usually associated with KDE-compatible apps.
This announcement indicates that, for the time being, Lubuntu will be sticking with LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) built with the GTK+ toolkit usually associated with GNOME-compatible apps.

Upstart will remain the init system for Lubuntu for now.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Subsentient on Monday April 06 2015, @09:19PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Monday April 06 2015, @09:19PM (#167178) Homepage Journal

    I just might want to point out that there are other init systems [universe2.us] out there. Like the undying glory of the Epoch Init System.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2015, @09:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2015, @09:11PM (#168838)

    At this point in time it is flat out wrong to think about systemd just in terms of init. It has become a whole host of interlocking processes that handling anything from task scheduling (think cron) to networking (firewall included).

    In essence it reeks of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.