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> software has become hopelessly dependent on its existence

With some effort, Devuan has managed to support multiple init systems, at least for the software packaged by Devuan/Debian.

> SMF is superior to SystemD ... [CDDL]

OSS workalike opportunity, as new Devuan init system?

> The argument must be: IllumOS over Linux.

Thanks :)

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SMF is OSS. The CDDL is an OSI approved licence. I'm not aware of any reason one couldn't readily ship user mode CDDL software in a Linux distribution; you don't even have the usual (often specious) arguments about linking and derivative works and so on in that case.

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