I’m curious to know why people use systemd-less distributions. Which one would you recommend to someone who wants to stop using systemd?
I’m curious to know why people use systemd-less distributions. Which one would you recommend to someone who wants to stop using systemd?
I don’t think there’s one. Gentoo OpenRC was created with FreeBSD and NetBSD in mind but hasn’t really been adopted beyond Linux. It feels more like it’s an effort to keep recipes for having Linux run without systemd and to monitor cases where systemd integration breaks things for other init systems. Having only one good option means being one option away from having no good options at all.
So why bother about making init tools portable? You end up with a tool that works poorly on all OSes and nobody needs more of that.
Even if OpenRC is not widely adopted it is a commitment from Gentoo to build their package recipes in a way that’s portable across different init systems. Keeping options open is healthy and I think one of the coolest things about Linux ecosystem historically was that there were at least two non-halfassed options for most of the system components. This also helps out little guys like BSDs who benefit from portability issues Gentoo package maintainers raise upstream.