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Systemd-Free Devuan Linux Announces A Second Release Candidate (devuan.org)
An anonymous reader quotes The Register:
Devuan Linux has released its second release candidate... A 1.0.0 release candidate emerged just under a fortnight ago and today the developers announced Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC2. New in this cut of the code is a systemd-free version of network-manager, new versions of reportbug, desktop-base and xfce4-panel. GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon have been removed from tasksel, but can still be installed although they "are known to suffer from some glitches due to the lack of systemd."
The Devuan web site says this series of release candidates "marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as a universal base distribution." And their announcement describes Devuan as "the Debian that was and could have been. Our goal is to provide a viable and sustainable alternative...a new path, nurtured with your help and support."
The Devuan web site says this series of release candidates "marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as a universal base distribution." And their announcement describes Devuan as "the Debian that was and could have been. Our goal is to provide a viable and sustainable alternative...a new path, nurtured with your help and support."
I'm pro systemd and proud!
Activating services when a network connection comes, and without sucking at it, is a hugely good feature. And just a tiny example.
People whine and cry, whine and cry about loving their SysV init scripts. Personally, I think they're disgusting. Almost everything about SysV is disgusting and that was always true. That was even true when it was the best option, which is simply no longer true.
Systemd is modular and anybody who tells you differently is an idiot who didn't check, or can't comprehend how software is built and distributed. Yes, the different modules are in the same source code repository. No, that doesn't mean it is monolithic.
And even funnier, I'm still using all the SysV init scripts that I was actually using before. All the major distros support using both systems together, and if I already have a customized init script, I'm still using it! But those scripts are disgusting, I'm unlikely to want to create new ones when I need custom behavior in the future.