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.
Eudev is a fork of udev, made by the Gentoo project to avoid dependency on systemd.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @12:21PM (1 child)
I try to get about ten years of use out of each desktop or laptop I buy. I think that's a reasonable value for the purchase price. Trying to continue on with something with 512 MB of RAM seems like too much. I know that's unimaginable personal computing power by 1997 standards, but that was 20 years ago.
I haven't had any problems with systemd and use it at home and at work. That said, I had an outstanding experience with Void Linux when I used that and had no problems with runit either. So if you go that route, best of luck to you (no sarcasm intended). Competition and choice in the free software world is one of the things that makes it awesome, so even if I never leave systemd again I'm glad alternatives and their supporters exist.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Monday November 06 2017, @03:55PM
For a laptop that was destined for recycling, it does what I want it to do (play music and non-HD media) admirably, even if it is 15 (not 20 yet) years old. I'm not spending any money on it for upgrades, which would be a waste, but replacing it with a new computer (or, more likely, a media player or TV box), while this one does the job, would also be a waste.