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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: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:14AM
A better car analogy would be something like you bring it in for a trailer hitch to be attached and some goofball insists that the 12V negative ground DC electrical system has to be replaced by 6.3 volt AC electrical system and then massive handwaving begins with "that's what tow trucks need in 2016" and "everything else can just change or go away"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:18PM
Yes please! For us tube folks a 6.3 VAC filament supply would be a godsend.