Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:13PM
Bodhi Linux used that by default for years.
The Bodhi devs became disenchanted with E18 and forked E17 to produce the Moksha Desktop.
Elive
Years back, the chief dev was having a hard time paying his bills and turned that distro into payware, making only old binaries/code available--and you had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get that. 8-(
The community took over the project and undid that.
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