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> I would love if a major distro emerges Good news for you! You have slackware [0], void [1] and alpine [3], which are widely-used non-systemd distributions wi
by enriquto 3y ago
> I would love if a major distro emerges
Good news for you! You have slackware [0], void [1] and alpine [3], which are widely-used non-systemd distributions with sane scripts. They are well-maintained rolling releases which allow you to use much newer versions of the kernel and packages than your typical ubuntu/debian installs. I don't particularly care about systemd, but these distros are great by themselves!
[0] http://www.slackware.com/getslack/ http://www.slackware.com/getslack/
[1] https://voidlinux.org/ https://voidlinux.org/
[2] https://www.alpinelinux.org/ https://www.alpinelinux.org/
- stryan 3y agoNote that only Slackware testing is rolling-release. Normal Slackware is about as far from rolling release as you can get. I do highly recommend it though! Slackware's init scripts were always a pleasure to use, part of why I was anti-systemd for a long time.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoOf those, I think only Void is fully rolling release; Slackware, as you note, is very much not rolling, and Alpine has regular releases and you'd have to go to the "edge" version to get rolling releases.
- cempaka 3y agoI've just started playing with Void because I want to use runit on both my dev machines (Linux) and servers (FreeBSD). I've really been liking it a lot, although the batteries-not-included approach did not phase me since I've been on Arch for awhile. Another thing that prompted the switch was annoying intermittent failures of systemd-resolved.