I am wary of systemd for various reasons which are irrelevant to this question. Now, I'm about to upgrade my Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie. Will systemd be used by default after an apt-get dist-upgrade? If so, what do I need to do to stick with sysvinit?
Debian – if I upgrade from Debian Wheezy (7.x) to Jessie (8.x), will systemd run by default
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Best Answer
Yes, it will run by default. A dist-upgrade from wheezy to Jessie will switch to using
systemd
as the init system. The Jessie release notes devotes a whole section to this issue, also giving a recommendation about how to stay with your current init system:It also mentions that "some packages may have degraded behavior or may be lacking features under a non-default init system."