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.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Sunday December 04 2016, @04:07AM
It's not a matter of "bother looking". In several years of looking I have found one professional grade CAM system that runs on something other than Windows and it would cost about $40k to switch over, discarding my current $20k software. 20 to 30 years ago most ran on Unix, but not so much any more. Many were acquired and discontinued.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek