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Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk)
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".
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".
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.'"
And your non-systemd boot process will also be comprehensible and easy to troubleshoot.
lol! "entanglement" is right!
What did Einstein call quantum entanglement?
"Spooky action at a distance".
What better way to talk about systemd...
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.
> To that end, the only real interaction you normally have with systemd is to start or stop a service, and view the associated logs if some service is misbehaving.
Systemd has also taken over network configuration with an unnecessary DHCP service, which it should _not_ have touched, automounting, and is now attempting to manage user processes with misfeatures that kill user processes silently, such as the default enabled "KillUserProcess" command. Please be clear that systemd is not attempting to _manage_ processes. It is attempting to directly manage almost _all_ system services, many of them by direct replacement with dangerously incompatible and modified systems.