Comment Debian has more "init freedom" (Score 1) 372
How is it that nobody has brought up that Debian still has sysvinit available, including for the upcoming Debian 9 "stretch".The release notes for Debian 8 "Jessie" included instructions for how to stick with sysvinit if you didn't want systemd. That was two years ago, and sysvinit is still an option in Debian today.
Do "init freedom lovers" include people that like systemd? It seems to me that Debian gives you that freedom, and Devuan takes it away so that you cannot choose systemd.
There are valid criticisms of systemd. I understand that some people who have tried it don't like it. That's fine, people can and should use what they want. However I often doubt that systemd haters have really given it a chance, bothered to learn the new technology at all, or explored the new things that are possible and easy with systemd.
Personally I think systemd is the best thing on GNU/Linux since package managers with dependency resolution.