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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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(Score: 2) by hash14 on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:40PM
Unfortunately, no distro can do everything. It's very difficult to balance user friendliness with other considerations, like security, stability, or freedom of choice. For example, you wouldn't want to use a distro with an emphasis on user friendliness on a mission critical server.
Traditionally, what has happened is that there are upstream distros which focus on building a solid technical foundation or platform that other distros can build off. Debian used to be a good example of this, and then derivatives like Ubuntu and Mint focused on making them more user friendly while trying to maintain the benefits of the solid foundation that they were built on. Of course, since they adopted systemd, Debian ceased to be a sound technical choice, but hopefully Devuan can fill that void. If the project picks up steam, then I would very much hope that a similar effort to make a downstream user friendly distro off of that would result.