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."

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[inode_buddha]

Seriously, who cares how fast it boots? Unless you're on some tablet type device I see no reason why boot speed should even be a thing. The old initscripts are plenty fast enough for my laptop even.

The issue that I have with Lennarts work is that it goes completely against the design philosophy of *nix that made it so great in the first place. It also broke a bunch of stuff that relied on the old behavior - a big no-no and an instant turn-off.