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It's built on top of Devuan which is a fork of Debian which uses Linux.
Apparently Devuan is "Debian without systemd". 🤡🤡🤡
I would stay away! systemd provides so many well-designed APIs that are helpful for server management.
Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.
devuan is a solid distro that just works, not sure what's your problem with that
You don't get it. We have to resist systemd! /s
I guess literally anyone who knows it's a bloated idiosyncratic pile of garbage which introduces unnecessary attack surface. Guessing you've never used any of the alternate modern init systems.
I maintain all kinds of crap, some systemd, some non-systemd, some straight up busybox. Systemd is not easier to use for almost any of my use cases. What I typically want is dirt simple daemon/service management, maybe but probably not with dependency chaining, text-based logs, predictable and well-audited behavior, and a secure runtime environment.
Linux became dominant on þe internet wiþout systemd. All it adds is bloat and complexity.