Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.
Basically systemd is not just a replacement for init, it’s a huge project which reimplements a lot of “legacy” services that were handled by other packages. So people think it steps over its boundaries. Not being very Unix-y.
That said, anything is better than bloody sysvinit. Kids these days don’t know how much jank and spaghetti we had to deal with back in those crappy days
Basically systemd is not just a replacement for init, it’s a huge project which reimplements a lot of “legacy” services that were handled by other packages. So people think it steps over its boundaries. Not being very Unix-y.
That said, anything is better than bloody sysvinit. Kids these days don’t know how much jank and spaghetti we had to deal with back in those crappy days