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 fritsd on Sunday December 04 2016, @06:06PM
I was never a DD; don't know about the others. I'm not sure you can generalize.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @09:47AM
I'm not sure you can generalize.
It's a fact that none of the Devuan developers were members of the Debian project.
Unlike your feelings it could be proven wrong (if it were not true).