Gentoo doesn't use systemd by default, it has its own init system called OpenRC that's kinda sorta like a framework for sysv. Despite being shell based, it's ve

Gentoo doesn't use systemd by default, it has its own init system called OpenRC that's kinda sorta like a framework for sysv. Despite being shell based, it's very fast, my system can get from GRUB to Firefox in less than ten seconds if you enable autologin and add Firefox to your.Xsession. Gentoo maintains forks of udev and logind, imaginatively named eudev and elogind. I use eudev, but elogind is unnecessary for me because I don't use Gnome3. But if that's your thing I'm not stopping you. Pulseaudio is easy to remove by virtue of Gentoo's source based package model. Dbus less so; many applications have a hard dependency on it. I think it's possible to use a BSD kernel, but you will very likely deal with a lot of breakage. Gentoo is just so much easier to administrate that other distros it's unreal.