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Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut
As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux.
Benjamin Drung of Canonical shared that they are looking at replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation on future versions of Ubuntu. With Ubuntu 24.10 there is Dracut available in the archive and should work on most systems while in the future it may replace initramfs-tools outright. Dracut was started by Red Hat and used for many years now by the likes of Fedora and RHEL as well as openSUSE, / SUSE, and numerous other Linux distributions.
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