Your comment gets it mostly right, except: > Not only did Debian make the decision to support systemd, it voted to NOT support other init systems. This is inc

Your comment gets it mostly right, except: > Not only did Debian make the decision to support systemd, it voted to NOT support other init systems. This is incorrect: systemd was merely voted as the default init system, other init systems are explicitly supported, here's the TC decision: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00001.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00...