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posted by takyon on Monday November 06 2017, @01:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-debian dept.

The antiX Linux project announced version 17 of its distribution:

The developers of the Debian-based antiX GNU/Linux distribution announced the release of antiX 17, dubbed "Heather Heyer" and based on the Debian GNU/Linux 9.2 "Stretch" operating system.

antiX 17 follows the trend of previous versions to offer users an operating system that does not include the widely used systemd init system. With this release, Gentoo's eudev device file manager for the Linux kernel is used by default instead of udev.

Source: Softpedia News

Eudev is a fork of udev, made by the Gentoo project to avoid dependency on systemd.

Also at It's Foss and Distrowatch.

Related: Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @03:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @03:03PM (#593067)

    HTF can you say SystemD makes booting on dodgy hardware easier, when the simple alternative would be to have a simple init just start a shell?
    Afaik SystemD doesn't require graphics or gnome yet, but how would you like to have to get that working on your dodgy hardware as a condition to boot?

    I wrangle many embedded servers; I don't care about parallelised boot because 1) I don't have a habit of rebooting my servers and 2) the init system needs to just start the workload and get out of the way.

    Thankfully nobody is pooh poohing these SystemD free distros here yet, but let me throw out that hard dependencies on SystemD as init will preclude software from working on the BSDs, which have a higher consensus on being allowed to exist.