Linux distribution
Expirion Linux 5.0.2
Nate Drake casts aside systemd in favour of this lightweight Devuan-based distro. Is SysVInit the right way to go?
IN BRIEF
We always admire distros maintained by a single developer; this fork of Devuan offers superior performance and carefully curated software. Unfortunately, there are bugs both in setup and system settings.
SPECS
CPU: 1GHz Mem: 1GB HDD: 8GB Builds: x86_64
As most Linux users know, the introduction of systemd divided the community. On one hand it can provide faster boot times and better service management, not to mention consistency across distros.
Nevertheless when it was integrated into Debian 8, a group of developers felt systemd went against the Unix philosophy of “doing one thing well’. In 2014, they announced the creation of their own fork, Devuan. This is systemdless, instead relying on components such as init, eudev and elogind.