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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @08:21AM
Sure. Sysv-init/sysv-rc is a great combo. That is probably why literally every Linux distribution is dumping that for systemd, OpenRC, epoch, and lots of other replacements.
Even in devuan there is lots of talk about replacing sysv-rc eventually.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday December 04 2016, @08:19PM
According to the Slackware Web site, they haven't dumped sysvinit.
http://www.slackware.com/config/init.php [slackware.com]