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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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submitted 1 year ago by Tundra@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Ive been runing Debian 12 (kde) since bookworm was released and am loving it.

I have recently discovered Devuan which seems to be Debian without systemd - what is the benefit of removing this init system?

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[–] Arigion@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My problem with systemd is that since I'm practically forced to use it that it's flakey in starting services after boot (independent of service and distro). Since systemd I had to install monit to check if all services came up. Didn't had that problem before. Or I forgot, it's been a while....

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't worry about the downvotes, Lemmy is a systemd sausage fest. If you want negative "karma", just write "systemd bad" or even "pulseausio bad" anywhere, and wait...

[–] Arigion@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Lol. Thanks. I really don't care. I'm running linux servers professionally since the late 90s, which means I have seen one or the other WTF. And systemd had quit some of them, especially flooding log files and race conditions. For example see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7293. That took more than 2 years to fix. And if people like to downvote my personal experience with it they are welcome to do so. I mean all I did was answering a question why one might use a systemd free distribution. Oh and for the downvoters: SYSTEMD IS MICROSOFTS ATTEMPT TO KILL LINUX! Poettering always was their agent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering 😉