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As a long time user of OpenRC, I was pretty sad when Debian jumped into systemd by default instead of sticking to something like OpenRC as the default. It's li

by kev009 10y ago

As a long time user of OpenRC, I was pretty sad when Debian jumped into systemd by default instead of sticking to something like OpenRC as the default. It's light weight, easy to use, embraces POSIX, and a good modular building block for both server operating systems and not over reaching on the plumbing desktop users want. Cheers to TrueOS which is done by an astonishingly small dev team and part time at that as they are FreeNAS devs. If you ignore the hit and miss graphics story shared with FreeBSD for now, TrueOS has some of the best defaults and out of the box experience I've seen.

loeg 10y ago
> If you ignore the hit and miss graphics story shared with FreeBSD for now. TrueOS actually ships a newer graphics stack than FreeBSD for now, so if you want recent Intel GPU support (in i915kms), it's there (at least through Skylake).
jakeogh 10y ago
Try Gentoo (again:).
- digi_owl 10y ago
  Speaking of Gentoo. The current maintainer of OpenRC over there seems hell bent on introducing all manner of systemd-isms to it. To the point that certain members of the Gentoo community is contemplating a fork of OpenRC.
  - jakeogh 10y ago
    uug. Links? Sounds like something the eudev people would be on the right side of.
    - digi_owl 10y ago
      https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1035064.html https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1035064.html
- kev009 10y ago
  I'm on vanilla FreeBSD now. Ports is about equally as cool as Portage, but Poudriere and quarterly branches edges out for commercial use IMO. And I get a neat kernel and community that are both approachable and fun to work with.