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If I understand correctly, the main motivation for starting Devuan was to have a debian based distro without systemd. But doesn't AntiX and MX already do this ? or is it only to a certain extent ? like not having systemd as init, but having systemd anyway for other tasks (systemd-shim).
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At the time of the Devuan fork, it looked like Debian was going to be systemd only, but after some 'complaints', they rethought it & allowed for non systemd install, which is what both the above distros use.
Based on my experience with Devuan (I haven't used it in about year), it was not so much a fork of Debian, but a clone. It looked, felt, and acted like Debian, just without SystemD.
AntiX is a live CD distro according to their website. Similarly, MX Linux wants to be a mid-weight desktop distro. Devuan wants to be a systemd-free Debian, which I generally think of as a customizable base. I choose Devuan because I want to mix and match the desktop components on my desktops and have a minimal install for my servers.
At the time of the Devuan fork, it looked like Debian was going to be systemd only, but after some 'complaints', they rethought it & allowed for non systemd install, which is what both the above distros use.
They may have 'allowed' for this but the use of systemd somehow creates a web of dependencies that in practice block the use of other init.
If you look at the MX19.2 live iso for instance you will find that the version of Gparted that ships with it does not work and the 'error' it reports is that
'PID1 is not systemd'. The same problem leads to partitions on local drives being unreadable by the user. This and other problems lead me to drop MX19.
I do know that, through an expert installation of Devuan, you can choose its init software between SysV and OpenRC and opt NOT to install non-free software.
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I do know that, through an expert installation of Devuan, you can choose its init software between SysV and OpenRC and opt NOT to install non-free software.
You can't do that with MX Linux or AntiX.
antiX offers a net install.iso (either sysvinit or runit) which does not include non-free software, though the repo is enabled by default.
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