[yAnonymous]

>They were always in the early birds for taking decision about the future

What. It was Arch who

* stuck to SysVinit and told users "you want Systemd, make a package" until long after the big distros had made the switch to Systemd/upstart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart)

* refused to sign packages properly, because "our users don't need that"

It's exactly that kind of decision that makes me stay clear of it. They have the latest packages, but on the system side changes take way too long.

[JetSetWilly]

Arch made systemd the default in October 2012, and added it to repos in January 2012. There's only one "major" OS that was earlier, which is Fedora - to be expected given that systemd is a red hat project.

Suse was October 2014. Debian and Ubuntu were April 2015. RHEL was June 2014.

[the_why_of_y]

openSUSE 12.1 had systemd by default, released in Nov. 2011.

https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Portal:12.1

[yAnonymous]

Ubuntu had Upstart in 9.04 (2009), as did others before they used systemd. I posted a source...