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antiX 17, a Linux Distribution Without Systemd, is Released

posted by takyon on Monday November 06 2017, @01:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-debian dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

Source: Softpedia News

Eudev is a fork of udev, made by the Gentoo project to avoid dependency on systemd.

Also at It's Foss and Distrowatch.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @08:11PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @08:11PM (#593280)

    I have an internal file server that runs CentOS 5. Even though it is an internal-only machine, our policy at work is to strictly enforce the system update process. After one update, my system is fucked. It can't talk on the network any more. I used to be able to still ssh into it, but that stopped as well (timeouts when trying to connect). The local console works ok, but anything in desktop mode takes FOREVER (try to open an application, etc.). I've been down the rabbit hole of troubleshooting with most advice talking about how IPV6 needs to be disabled (which I did), but nothing has worked for me so far.

    I hadn't thought about systemd fucking it up; things were working just fine until after that update, so it wouldn't surprise me if it is something very small and stupid like you mentioned.

  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:10AM

    by KritonK (465) on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:10AM (#593584)

    If I remember correctly, systemd was introduced in RHEL/CentOS 7, so your CentOS 5 server should still be running init.

    BTW, if you have a policy of strictly enforcing the update process, you should update to a newer version of CentOS, so that you might have updates to apply. Version 5 has reached end-of-life, and there are no updates forthcoming.