14 DAY TRIAL // The developers from Canonical are now working on implementing systemd in Ubuntu, and the first steps have been taken.
Debian devs chose systemd over Upstart, and that meant that Canonical had to make the very difficult decision of dropping Upstart. As you are all aware, Upstart is a project made by Canonical and the entire OS makes use of Debian. This means that whatever major changes occur in Debian will also reach the Ubuntu development cycle.
Mark Shuttleworth announced a while ago that his company would make the switch from Upstart to systemd, and now things have started happening.
“I’m now happy to announce that the latest systemd 204-10ubuntu1 just landed in Utopic, after sorting out enough of the current uninstallability in -proposed. The other fixes (bluez, resolvconf, lightdm, etc.) already landed a few days ago. Compared to the PPA these have a lot of other fixes and cleanups, due to the excellent hackfest that we held last weekend,” said Ubuntu developer Martin Pitt in a blog.
This is far from an actual implementation and it's possible that it won't be ready in time for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn). The developers are still working with systemd 204, which is an older release, but they need to fix a few major problems first.