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, @06:15PM (2 children)
Ah yes, the change in the handling of mount exit codes.
Previously most init solutions ignored most errors because the error message itself would be printed on screen (and if anything other than / failed to mount, it could always be fixed manually later).
Systemd devs claims they do it the way they do to avoid incorrect writes by "services" in places they should not.
This because the focus of systemd has long since left the desktop (where they initially claimed to boot faster, but now don't want people to talk about boot times at all), and is no firmly on managing container farms in the cloud.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:19AM (1 child)
So it wasn't only my impression that systemd has stopped touting its supposedly fast boot times.
Interestingly enough, I read somewhere that Void Linux achieves it fast boot times because it doesn't use systemd!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 07 2017, @02:19PM
Void linux has a fast boot/shutdown and a fast package manager. Runit scripts are also straightforward compared to "yo let's implement a DSL to boot, it should be fun" systemd. If I cared about the boot process I'd try void before all else.