THE roundup of December's Novell news is about to come, but among OpenSUSE posts of all sorts we found this article from Phoronix -- an article that got its author berated in the forums (typical Novell bullies). To quote:
OpenSUSE 12.1 introduced support for systemd but it didn't defenestrate SysVinit as there are still some dependencies on this older init system. However, there's a proposal now to completely phase out SysVinit within openSUSE and it's been met by some mixed views.