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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: 5, Insightful) by tibman on Friday May 26 2017, @09:23PM
Making programs dependent on a specific init system doesn't make the OS more modular. Exactly the opposite. Now you can't replace the init system of your OS without replacing all those other programs that depend on it. Linux typically has very loosely coupled components so that any single part can be swapped out with a different implementation. Systemd breaks that.
Systemd is dependent on linux (can't run any other OS kernel). So programs that depend on systemd now also become unportable. As-in they can't be used by a BSD or other unix. That's just stupid.
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