Devuan Releases Beta of Systemd-Free 'Debian Fork' Base System (devuan.org)

jaromil writes: Devuan beta is released today, following up the Debian fork declaration and progress made during the past two years. Devuan now provides an alternative upgrade path to Debian, and switching is easy from both Wheezy and Jessie. From The Register: "Devuan came into being after a rebellion by a self-described 'Veteran Unix Admin collective' argued that Debian had betrayed its roots and was becoming too desktop-oriented. The item to which they objected most vigorously was the inclusion of the systemd bootloader. The rebels therefore decided to fork Debian and 'preserve Init freedom.' The group renamed itself and its distribution 'Devuan' and got work, promising a fork that looked, felt, and quacked like Debian in all regards other than imposing systemd as the default Init option."

Comments

Re: In Other News: People Hate Change

[FrankHaynes]

You must mean computers that don't boot because the people who configured them couldn't bother themselves to read the f@cking manual and follow instructions.

I did it and I'm no genius. You can too.

What is wrong with systemd?

[Midnight Thunder]

I am new to this and I have seen a fair few "systemd is 3vil" posts, but with little indication as to why people dislike it, compared to the alternatives? Just to be clear I don't have a position here, rather I am looking for some insight.