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Patrick Volkerding is hesitant about systemd, but not openly hostile, so he has decided to stay away from it for now, but hasn't ruled it out for the future.

People who are set against systemd should probably better look elsewhere (although their options are pretty limited).

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Alternatives include CRUX (whose maintainer's systemd stance is "over my dead body :)"), Void Linux (the only distro I know of to adopt systemd by default and then migrate away from it; currently it uses runit with systemd as an option), and Alpine.

I'm sticking with Slack for the time being, but I've got my eye out for alternatives should the worst happen.

> to adopt systemd by default and then migrate away from it

Now that could be a interesting read, if documented somewhere.

I've also played a little bit with Devuan, which is basically just Debian without systemd, and it seemed to work pretty well.

To be quite honest I didn't have much faith in Devuan as lasting beyond the "publicity stunt" phase, so it's remarkable to me that it's still around.

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