Devuan 6.0 “Excalibur” is now available as the fork of Debian GNU/Linux without the use of systemd. Devuan 6.0 is Debian 13 but for “init freedom” lets you use either SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system.
Devuan 6.0 “Excalibur” is now available as the fork of Debian GNU/Linux without the use of systemd. Devuan 6.0 is Debian 13 but for “init freedom” lets you use either SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system.
If there are, none have managed to make a strong case for themselves yet. Systemd has proven itself to be a huge boon for sysadmins, especially at scale. These kind of anti-systemd efforts usually come from stubborn old timers who probably aren’t even employed in a capacity where they’d have to work with an init system at all (maybe they were fired for having obsolete skills?).
Yes I’m being a dick, but these people are also usually dicks, so fuck em.
An init system should be easy to understand and maintain. SystemD is anything but.
With SysVinit I could write my own startup scripts and have total control over them.