14 DAY TRIAL // There have been a lot of discussions around the implementation of systemd in Debian and not everyone agrees on the right course of action, but it's been voted upon and the effects have started to show. systemd 217 has been uploaded in Debian experimental and it's already present in Debian "Jessie."
systemd’s adoption by the Debian project has sparked some controversy and many developers don't want to have anything to do with it. On the other side of the discussion, even more devs have agreed that systemd is the way to go forward and it was just a matter of time until it eventually landed in Debian experimental as well.
Debian has a long development cycle and no clear schedule for the upcoming releases. It usually takes a long time for a version to become stable, so it will be a while until systemd is available in a stable release. Nonetheless, the first steps have been taken and the packages have landed in Debian experimental. This is a different build from stable, unstable, and testing.
Systemd is also coming to Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu is based on Debian and systemd is a core component. The Ubuntu project already has its own init system, Upstart, which was also used in Debian. Now that Debian is getting systemd, the Ubuntu distribution has to do the same.
"Voilà, systemd 217 in Debian experimental! This got stalled a bit while we focused on bug fixing for the Jessie freeze, but it's good to have the current version for comparing when looking at bugs. I also want to put it into vivid, so I'll rebase the ubuntu branch on it soon," writes Martin Pitt, a Debian developer.
Most Ubuntu users won't see anything different with their system and it's a transparent change. All those Debian discussions never permeated the Ubuntu community, which is weird because Canonical's OS has a much bigger user base and the discussions should have been much fiercer, especially since they have replaced their own solution with another one over which they have no control.
A group of developers even forked Debian in an attempt to provide users with an operating system that is systemd-free. It's still in its early stages, but it looks like the devs for the upcoming Devuan (Debian with no systemd) are pretty serious and we might see some concrete results in a few months.
