Mint 18 released

[#1]

Just as no one knows how to operate W10 '-)

There are several wiki's about systemd, but until I actually need to do something with it it isn't bothering me.

[#2]

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@HairyMcbiker wrote:
Since it is based on Ubutntu 16.04 probably

I wondered if Mint devs had made any effort to stick with sysvinit.

AIUI, such was the controversy surrounding Debian's decision to adopt systemd, it's possible to upgrade from Debian 7.x to Debian 8.x and keep sysvinit.

Ditto for a clean install of Debian 8.x - systemd is the default but it can use sysvinit (which I think is what LMDE2 uses).

How do you know?

From memory (been a while and I only have Android with me)....

Inxi can tell you the init system in use ( -v3 switch?)

/sbin/init symlinked to systemd

PID1 is systemd

[#3]

Regardless of Debian, LMDE2 doesn't effectively use systemd - although I have a few hundred systemd files on my disks...

dmesg | grep systemd
[    1.403927] systemd-udevd[75]: starting version 215
[    1.404196] random: systemd-udevd urandom read with 3 bits of entropy available
[    3.739993] systemd-udevd[366]: starting version 215
[   35.386627] systemd-logind[3202]: New seat seat0.
[   35.399937] systemd-logind[3202]: Failed to start user service: Unknown unit: user@1000.service
[   35.406224] systemd-logind[3202]: New session c1 of user jeremy.
[  313.324410] systemd-logind[3202]: Failed to start user service: Unknown unit: user@65534.service
[  313.329272] systemd-logind[3202]: New session c2 of user nobody.
[  313.357718] systemd-logind[3202]: Removed session c2.
[  313.362833] systemd-logind[3202]: New session c3 of user nobody.
[  313.382862] systemd-logind[3202]: Removed session c3.
[  313.388876] systemd-logind[3202]: New session c4 of user nobody.
[  348.505267] systemd-logind[3202]: Removed session c4.

I think it may, at most, run udev.

[#4]

/sbin/init symlinked to systemd

hairybiker@octo:~$ ll /sbin/init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 12 10:39 /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd

[#5]

LMDE2 says no.

ll /sbin/init
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40648 Apr  6  2015 /sbin/init