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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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systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta
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(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Sunday December 04 2016, @10:46PM
Ahh, I avoided systemd by doing a crapload of apt-get install systemd- foo bar baz (and apt-get --dry-run dist-upgrade to get a list of what was needed) until I got a clean enough apt-get upgrade
(I'm in the habit of doing it that way since I've gotten my system hosed by bad libc [static linked dpkg and lynx are in my toolbox], conflicting perl-packages [always intersting to upgrade perl-base] and gotten gnome accidently installed once (took a while to get my system back to "login at console" after that one) over the years - so I distrust anything I havn't check by checking the output of apt-get --dry-run $command first)