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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.

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @08:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @08:31AM (#436828)

    Actually with devuan you can install any init system and you get a second rate experience with all of them. Upstream projects do use systemd to improve security, features or convenience and that then gets removed by devuan.

    Systemd does play nice with a lot of developers and helps them solve problems in the Linux platform. Yes, it does break stuff in the process. Yes, that is annoying at times. But at least the platform improves that way.