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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: 5, Insightful) by srobert on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:50AM
The article at the Register depicts Devuan as having been started by a bunch of old crackpots who think Linux has become too desktop-friendly. Legitimate concerns over systemd are dismissed with a "chicken-little" reference. Overall the author seems to be parroting the dismissive tone of systemd advocates who don't feel they should have their decisions questioned.