Devuan just released their LTS stable Jessie system:
Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd. The latest 1.0.0 Jessie release (LTS) marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as a universal base distribution. Since the Exodus declaration in 2014, infrastructure has been put in place to support Devuan's mission to offer users control over their system. Devuan Jessie provides continuity as a safe upgrade path from Debian 7 (Wheezy) and a flawless switch from Debian 8 (Jessie) that ensures the right to Init Freedom and avoids entanglement.
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-- hendrik
[See also the Devuan 1.0.0 stable release (LTS) announcement for more information on how to install/upgrade, the support services that are available (bug tracking/reporting, user forums, etc.) --martyb]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @03:41PM (1 child)
There's the question of what userland software would even care about the init system. I guess that would be Windoze/Mac skins for the graphical desktop, which I use on only one of my machines.
I'm fine with running fvwm on that machine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @08:40AM
systemd is not an init system. It's so much more and metastasizing at an alarming rate.