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Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the forking-the-road dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader Billly Gates writes, "For all the systemd haters who want a modern distro feel free to rejoice. The Debian fork called Devuan is almost done, completing a daunting task of stripping systemd dependencies from Debian." From The Register: Devuan came about after some users felt [Debian] had become too desktop-friendly. The change the greybeards objected to most was the decision to replace sysvinit init with systemd, a move felt to betray core Unix principles of user choice and keeping bloat to a bare minimum. Supporters of init freedom also dispute assertions that systemd is in all ways superior to sysvinit init, arguing that Debian ignored viable alternatives like sinit, openrc, runit, s6 and shepherd. All are therefore included in Devuan.
Devuan.org now features an "init freedom" logo with the tagline, "watching your first step. Their home page now links to the download site for Devuan Jessie 1.0 Beta2, promising an OS that "avoids entanglement".

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  1. Re:Init alternatives by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do any of these alternatives offer the same speed benefit of systemd?

    No, your system might boot two, or even three seconds slower than with systemd.

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  2. Re:Init alternatives by I4ko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you seriously asking such a deranged question or just trolling? We don't live in the 90s any more.

    There is no reason, even with the price of electricity in Europe to shut your computer down, hence boot time is moot. And considering since 2005 or the whereabouts most people are on laptops, and it is relatively not so hard to find one with a working ACPI, hibernation to disk is what people do. Actual startup should only be performed after kernel patching (and not in all cases necessary) or hardware changes. Which is about 2-3 times a year at most.

  3. Re:So almost up to Slackware standards? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Slackware
    Correct

    > Slackware still
    VERY correct

    > Slackware still works
    MOSTLY correct

    > Slackware still works great
    For certain values of "great"

    > Slackware still works great, and has never had systemd.
    True, but they aren't on record saying that they won't.

  4. Re: Init alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    s/ROTFLMAO/CLOSED WONTFIX/ and you too could be a systemd dev.