[ale] Distro without systemd

[James Sumners]

http://voidlinux.eu is what I use in my personal systems now.

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 18:40 Joe Morris <jolomo at panix.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> There was a discussion here a few days ago about systemd. I don't have a
> religious
> opinion about it but I also don't want to play sysadmin at home. Like,
> ever.
>
> Long story short, ran into a problem on my cheap Dell laptop running
> CentOS that, while
> systemd was only the partial culprit it obscured the more serious problem
> to the point
> that I'd just as soon never see that on a personal, one-off system again.
>
> It's fine when I'm spinning up 200 virtual instances, configuring with
> automation and
> destroy and create whenever I want but not my home box. Where I save all
> my old
> bits and bytes.
>
> Anybody have a recommendation for that scenario? I'm agnostic when it
> comes to
> debian vs rh vs solaris vs bsd. Really don't need anything except the
> ability
> to read/write via USB 2 or 3 of all my data, boot from a minimal local
> drive (500GB)
> and support Ethernet and WiFi. I don't really care about windowing systems
> as
> long as it doesn't get in the way too much.
>
> Any on-the-ground experience of a distro that can be installed without
> systemd
> is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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