14 DAY TRIAL // Black Lab Software, through Robert Dohnert, has announced plans for switching their Black Lab Linux operating system to the controversial systemd init system next year.
The decision to move to systemd as the default init system for Black Lab Linux has been taken most probably because the operating system needs to align to new Linux technologies, and we have to admit that systemd does great things for some OSes.
The current version of the distribution, Black Lab Linux 6.5 SR1, was released earlier this week based on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn), which still uses the Upstart init system. Therefore, we can come to the conclusion that Black Lab Linux 9 will be based on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) or Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), both of them using systemd.
"Now I understand the controversy behind Systemd and I have heard both sides of the argument and this decision is not something we make lightly. There will be a couple of caveats to this," says Robert Dohnert on a Google+ post. "Black Lab Linux 9 will switch over to Systemd as the default init system."
Black Lab Linux 9 will be released in October 2016
The transition to the systemd init system for Black Lab Linux 9 will begin in January 2016, when the first Beta release of the next major version of the operating system will be made available for testing. The team will try to fix as many bugs as possible during the Beta stages of development.
Black Lab Software has also announced that the Black Lab Linux Server and the upcoming Black Lab ARM Server editions will not switch to systemd in this development cycle, because the Server flavors of Black Lab Linux are being updated every two years. The final version of Black Lab Linux 9 will be released in October 2016.