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Devuan: Debian Without Systemd
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Someone mentioned grml. I got the latest grml32-full_2014.11.iso (Jessie-based with sysvinit). On two different machines, one Wheezy and one Jessie, in a virtualbox, boot hangs before even a console prompt.

Can anyone else here test and confirm that?

(apparently) similar problems have been seen.. with recent refracta and exegnu jessie-based test builds, using sysvinit (since util-linux 2.25x appeared)

Has anyone here produced a working jessie sysvinit build using official live-build (or any other method) recently?

This almost soundy like systemd creep.

dzz wrote:Someone mentioned grml. I got the latest grml32-full_2014.11.iso (Jessie-based with sysvinit). On two different machines, one Wheezy and one Jessie, in a virtualbox, boot hangs before even a console prompt.

Can anyone else here test and confirm that?

I can confirm. I just tried running it in KVM.

I tried to attach a screenshot, but got this message:
Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

CORRECTION: It works fine using KVM. The first time I tried it, I didn't give the VM enough memory. I just tried again, this time giving the VM 512 MB of RAM -- there were no noticeable problems.

Phil

distributions using eudev:

1. AUSTRUMI switched to eudev in March 2013 (see package list for the 2.6.8 release).

2. Parted Magic switched to eudev in August 2013.

3. Quirky (experimental version of Puppy Linux) switched to eudev in December 2013.

4. 0linux switched to eudev in February 2014 (see base packages for the eta release).

5. Linux From Scratch (standard version) switched to eudev in March 2014 (see this commit).

6. Funtoo Linux switched to eudev in June 2014.

7. CRUX switched to eudev in July 2014.

8. Void Linux switched to eudev in July 2014 (see this commit).

9. GNU OS switched to eudev in September 2014.

10. NuTyX switched to eudev in October 2014 (see system packages for the Saravane release).

11. Puppy Linux (standard version) switched to eudev in October 2014 (see package list for the 6.0 tahrpup release).

12. Manjaro Linux (OpenRC edition) has used eudev since the initial release in December 2014.


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Next problem will be dbus, huh?

kill dbus would be cool, thanks to X11/Xorg,
it would be easier than systemd/ms-gui based system.

I don't use dbus on FreeBSD.

mmix wrote:kill dbus would be cool, thanks to X11/Xorg,
it would be easier than systemd/ms-gui based system.

And here we see that again. Can you please explain in which way systemd is related to the MS GUI?

i can't, time will tell.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet but here is another OS for your list fruitofloom, DesktopBSD. It's not even in the DW distro submission waiting list, not sure why.

Edit: Umm, the last release was 1.7 in 2009, maybe that's why, but the site says 2.0 is coming...weird, kinda looks abandoned.

DesktopBSD is abandomed. It installs and works pretty well, but any attempt to update breaks the system.

I think, at this particular time, when GNU/Linux is undergoing changes that impact choice, the only feasible option is to stick with Debian, while opting to use only the software that one approves of. Discontent will motivate coders who are discontent about the way GNU/Linux is taking, to create other solutions that work without needing systemd & co. However, one has wait for such solutions to evolve. In my case, I am thinking about the possibility of creating an init system for my needs, in the event I am contrained to, but it doesn't look like I will need to take that path. Devuan still needs to get rid of dbus and it looks this will be quite a challenge.

edbarx wrote:I think, at this particular time, when GNU/Linux is undergoing changes that impact choice, the only feasible option is to stick with Debian,.

It might be that is what you want to do.
But "the only feasible option" ? Rather not.
One migth stick to debian for many reasons. But that one reason, it is the only feasible option, is simply not a good one.

i believe in devuan doing one thing well. and freebsd too.

. Russia

TobiSGD wrote:

mmix wrote:kill dbus would be cool, thanks to X11/Xorg,
it would be easier than systemd/ms-gui based system.

And here we see that again. Can you please explain in which way systemd is related to the MS GUI?

But of course systemd is related to MS GUI, but it may not be visible at first sight - replacing init scripts with unified set of symbols allows to reletively easily create a gui for managing services (what is a fundamental part of server management tasks) - and I suppose this is one of key targets for systemd devs.

One may wonder why is that so important - I think, there are at least few plainly practical reasons:
1. The world is moving away from closed-src solutions (there's even an official note in this matter made by Eaton, in which they are explaining why they've donatad Debian. Russia, China are moving all their servers to Linux - although it may not be a good example, the numers are just huge)
2. In such situation MVP certificates are worth nothing - and there are hundreds of thousants of MVPs who knows nothing about Unix/Linux shell scripting - they are potentially wasted as human resources in the incoming era. They can only click with the mouse... <simplification of course, but not that far from realitty>

So I suppose that this is a plan for RedHat (but not only them): re-use winblows admins who have experience and are trained in handling stressing situations, but are unable to understand/learn how to use Linux. This can be especially true, if we consider a fact, that after something like 20 years of development MS created only a weak substitution for Linux/Unix shell : PowerShell. PowerShell is not very usable for admins, because on one side, for the decades nobody expected the winblows admins to be programmers, and on the other side PowerShell is nothing more than CINT (not to say that MS just stolen/bought the solution - as they have used to do - IE, SysInternals, just to name few).
Systemd opens the linux world for ex-winblows admins (maybe not yet at the moment), since it allows them to learn few simple keywords and become admin again.

(supplement: how many companies are now running winblows on servers? less and less: IBM, HP, Oracle, RedHat are selling Linux based servers <yes, IBM gave up on AIX>)

This just posted on the Devuan list:

Hello Devuan people
My name is Dragan, from Serbia, and i would like to present our TRIOS GNU/Linux distro based on Debian Jessie, without systemd.

Full xfce desktop, lightdm display manager, OpenRC init etc ... and not a single package from "aliend factory"
Pure debian distro, with our settings.

Our repository(*):
http://mirror.org.rs
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wget -qO - http://mirror.org.rs/mirror.org.rs.gpg.key | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://mirror.org.rs/trios/ mia main non-systemd" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trios-non-systemd.list
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(*)Big THANKS to Mr. Adam Borowski for taking the time to make this possible

Our forum:
http://www.foss.rs

thread about non-systemd TRIOS, with some screenshots and terminal output
http://www.foss.rs/topic/3015-trios-a4sa-i-bez-systemd

Unfortunately, for now only in Serbian, but I hope there will be more members
from other countries, so that we can also write in English.

In the next few days we will publish full live iso version, with our custom installer.
In the meantime, you can try the previous version(systemd-only)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensourcesrbija-trios

Regards, and welcome to the free world

Dragan

golinux wrote:

... present our TRIOS GNU/Linux distro based on Debian Jessie, without systemd.

But not without systemd libs and udev so not a solution I am interested in.

jaketate wrote:

golinux wrote:

... present our TRIOS GNU/Linux distro based on Debian Jessie, without systemd.

But not without systemd libs and udev so not a solution I am interested in.

I'm with you on that. Proves you need to read the fine print . . .

Operating systems without systemd:
Windows
Mac OSX

Both are already listed.