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Devuan.org

• kelnos 6y ago
  I still don't entirely get the point of Devuan. I put Debian buster on a low-RAM embedded box, and since systemd eats up precious RAM I'd rather keep, I just switched to OpenRC with apt install openrc && apt purge systemd If I needed it, Debian packages elogind as well. Rebooted and it worked perfectly. Now, I get that Debian doesn't really support OpenRC[0] (or sysvinit), and it could break in horrible ways when bullseye goes stable, or get removed entirely, but... I don't see why we need a fork before that happens? It seems like it's a lot of work to maintain a distro fork, when I feel like that effort could be more productively redirected to stronger maintenance and advocacy of OpenRC and/or sysvinit in Debian itself? [0] Debian's openrc package hasn't been updated in a little over a year, which is indeed concerning. sysvinit does seem to be more actively maintained, though.
  • wrycoder 6y ago
    Late reply, sorry. The problem isn't systemd's init. It's probably fine. The problem is the systemd project is taking over the userspace with mutually cross-linked modules. Devuan was started by a group of Debian maintainers who disagreed with the direction systemd was taking Debian.