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Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes (github.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):

paramazo/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager without age verification"
ganitam/systemd "Systemd fork just before the Age Verification addition. Hoping more capable developers and maintainers do same.."
GSYT-Productions/systemd-fork "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the stupid Age Verification"
speedythesnail/unret arded-systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the ret arded age-verification commits"
ta13579/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager WITHOUT THE FUCKING AGE CHECKS"
r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification "This is systemd but without the age verification made via pull request https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40978"
Pingasmaster/fightthesystemd "Systemd without the nonsense: no age verification, no lighthouse built-in."
Jeffrey-Sardina/system "Liberated systemd -- no surveillance. Ever."
HaplessIdiot/systemd-saneagecheck "The systemd System and Service Manager with age verification bypass and polling rate options for said feature"
Queer-Coded-LGBTQ/systemd-fuck-california "The systemd System and Service Manager, but without age bs added in."
Codiak540/unshitted-systemd "A fork of systemd aiming to strip the Age verification. Sue me california."

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 22 hours ago

https://nosystemd.org/

https://without-systemd.org/ too.

And there's MX and AntiX too, if wanting something like Debian/Ubuntu but with init-freedom.

And several other Devuan respins.

Or even PCLinuxOS. While it uses rpm package format, it uses apt as its package manager, so you don't even need to learn a new package manager. And of course, no systemd.

Dozens more options too.

Wait until it actually gets bad, there will hopefully be user-friendly distros to address the situation.

No need to wait past tipping points where harm is done. There have always been easy options. At least in all 22.5 years I've been using Linux. That never stopped. Just a corporation and its eager stooges perpetrated a psyop to mislead people into thinking systemd was the one true way. It's not. It never was. That was marketing lies.

Init-freedom ftw. :) Choice is good. Clean code is good. Maintainable and easily forkable code is good. UNIX philosophy is good (esp. "do one thing, well"). KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is good.

While systemd may be free software in name/license only, in practice, it's abusive. Social rot. Brain rot. Not good. Avoid.