[kwlug-disc] Devuan, a distro without systemd

[Hubert Chathi]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:21:50 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> said:

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> Adoption by Debian was a big mistake. At least in the mode that is in
> now, i.e. not pluggable.

Debian does allow you to switch init systems.  A lot of stuff will still
pull in the systemd libraries, but you don't need to actually run
systemd.

e.g. see this thread in debian-user:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/05/msg00538.html