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Greybeard-built Debian fork bringing init freedom on track for early 2017 release
The self-proclaimed "Veteran Unix Admins" forking Debian in the name of init freedom have released Beta 2 of their "Devuan" Linux distribution.
Devuan came about after some users felt it 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.
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systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:39PM
Another option, if you have some older hardware lying around, is to use it to make that old Windows XP machine great again (Or at least usable). The wonderful thing about messing with old hardware like that is that there's no risk you'll ruin anything important, and you can learn a lot about how things work, or in more exciting cases how they don't work.
But yes, I highly recommend firing up Linux and trying it, because there's absolutely no obligations or costs other than time to doing so.
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