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systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 03 2016, @07:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the fight-fight-fight! dept.

"exec" writes:

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 jmorris on Sunday December 04 2016, @04:39AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday December 04 2016, @04:39AM (#436767)

    except where it improves is largely in the realm of "nobody cares" (boot time? When was the last time you rebooted your Linux system?)

    Except Devuan even wins on boot time. Installed on an older Thinkpad it goes from grub to the SlimDM login prompt faster than the external LCD can catch up to the mode switching, i.e. screen goes blank after Grub as the kernel switches to the graphical console framebuffer and before it settles and displays an image again, the login prompt is there. This desktop machine I am on right now running Fedora (obviously with systemd) takes much longer to boot.

    The problems with Devuan having a formal release seem to mostly be in the installer. Upgrading from Debian has been reliable for some time. And netinstall seems to work too. This has probably delayed the release, not enough pain to motivate the effort to squash the bugs.

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