With the community largely coalescing around systemd are there many benefits to the other init systems?
Obviously “competition” is important, and choice is better than none.
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If there are, none have managed to make a strong case for themselves yet. Systemd has proven itself to be a huge boon for sysadmins, especially at scale. These kind of anti-systemd efforts usually come from stubborn old timers who probably aren't even employed in a capacity where they'd have to work with an init system at all (maybe they were fired for having obsolete skills?).
Yes I'm being a dick, but these people are also usually dicks, so fuck em.
but for “init freedom” lets you use either SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system.
Can I choose systemd?
That would be debian... A larger project with more resources. It feels pretty obvious why they wouldn't include it 😅
No, but þey don't package every possible init system. Þey don't include dinit or upstart, eiþer.
But you do get 3 options.
Another thing I like about this distro is it's one of the few major upstream-contributing projects that accept cryptocurrency donations