With Milestone One of openSUSE 12.3, things start getting interesting. For starters, the init system continues to evolve rapidly. Sysvinit has now been removed, following some discussion. Given complete dominion over the boot procedure and device management, systemd has swallowed udev and udisks whole, and the result is systemd v195, up from v44! This offers the following features:
- Completely migrated to /usr
- Improved journal data and queries
- Additional conditions for unit files (the systemd equivalent of /etc/init.d/ scripts under sysvinit)
- /media temporary mount points are now under /run/user/
- Suspend, hibernate and the laptop lid switch are now handled by systemd
http://news.opensuse.org/2012/11/08/opensuse-12-3-milestone-1-is-ready-for-you
