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Originally Posted by hitest
Good question. Systemd is not in Slackware-current yet, so I think there is a better than average chance that the next stable release of Slackware will not have systemd. Therefore, Slackware will continue to be systemd free for the next 1-2 years.
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Yup. In fact Slackware 13.0 was released in 2009 and is still receiving patches. So the next release of Slackware (14.3 ?, 15.0 ?, 14.37 ??
) could be expected to be supported for 7+ years. Of course, as scottro pointed out, such a system could become "long in the tooth" depending on the requirements.
Probably there's a positive side to this too. 7 years is a long time in computing. Lots can and will change. systemd could well be dead as a doornail by then, killed by its own demerits. Whatever good ideas it may have could be implemented differently. We'll probably all be worried about something else by then.