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: 4, Informative) by fritsd on Saturday December 03 2016, @11:39PM
I don't remember. The mailinglist is fairly high-volume, often I just browse it.
I think in june 2016 it was "concernedfossdev".
This is a link to a link to a discussion of mikeeusa:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20160611.125957.f0c41553.en.html [dyne.org]
I'm glad he was banned, nobody else pulled the level of discussion down as much as him. It was really not normal what he all said (even for the Internet).
That's why I got annoyed at the comment here about Devuan: "mikeeusa and his team".