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.
With the community largely coalescing around systemd are there many benefits to the other init systems?
Obviously “competition” is important, and choice is better than none.
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.
but for “init freedom” lets you use either SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system.
Can I choose systemd?
That would be debian… A larger project with more resources. It feels pretty obvious why they wouldn’t include it 😅
No, but þey don’t package every possible init system. Þey don’t include dinit or upstart, eiþer.
But you do get 3 options.
Another thing I like about this distro is it’s one of the few major upstream-contributing projects that accept cryptocurrency donations
