Revision as of 16:08, 11 January 2016

Without Systemd Wiki

• Init alternatives to systemd
• How to install systemd-independent udisks2 and policykit before removing systemd from a Debian jessie/sid installation
• How to remove systemd from a Debian jessie/sid installation
• How to remove systemd from the Netinst CD Beta!

• Arguments against systemd

Other useful sites

• The Manjaro Experiments
• systemd: Assumptions, Bullying, Consent
• Debian Bug #668001 "debootstrap: cant install systemd instead of sysvinit"
• Debian Bug #762194 "Automatic switch to systemd on wheezy->jessie upgrades"
• How to replace systemd with OpenRC on Debian Jessie (spanish)
• Installing Jessie without systemd (This preseed command will remove systemd and install sysvinit-core)
• preserve freedom of choice of init systems
• The bad side of systemd: two recent systemd failures
• Rob's Blog 23-04-2014
• An effort to mantain Arch Linux without systemd
• Escape from systemd (includes a table of distros, their target audience and their stance on systemd)
• Arch Linux, systemd-free A comprehensive guide for an Arch/Arch-derivative systemd-free setup with a 35-second proof-of-concept video
• LinuxQuestions.org Wiki - Prevent systemd installation
• OS for PPC (lists distros, with systemd-infected status shown in the sdI column)
• How to upgrade to Jessie without systemd (without apt-pinning) - Tested on a minimal server. Note that application dependencies may still pull systemd in, so be careful (or do apt-pinning)
• Migrating to Devuan plus minimalism tips

Free/Open Source Operating systems without systemd in the default installation

GNU/Linux distributions

• 0Linux (SysVinit)
• 4MLinux (BusyBox)
• Absolute Linux
• Alpine Linux (BusyBox/OpenRC)
• Amazon Linux AMI
• antiX antiX ships JWM+iceWM+fluxbox desktops. Separate, co-developed MX Linux distro ships XFCE desktop.
• AUSTRUMI (Slackware based bootable live CD, to be run from RAM)
• AV Linux
• Calculate Linux (Gentoo based using OpenRC)
• ConnochaetOS
• Crux
• DeLi(cate) Linux (legacy hardware)
• Devil-Linux live, firewall distro
• Devuan
• Dragora GNU/Linux Libre
• Elive Linux
• Exe GNU/Linux
• Finnix (Debian based lightweight live CD using SysVinit)
• Funtoo Linux (Using OpenRC)
• Gentoo Linux
  • While an option is provided to install systemd for those that want it, the default init system in Gentoo Linux as of May 2015 is OpenRC. If Portage is pulling in systemd, please read this Gentoo wiki article before removing Gentoo from this list. Other suggested reading, [1]
• gNewSense GNU/Linux
• GNU Guix
• GNUinos Libre distro based on Devuan
• GoboLinux
  • Uses sysvinit + BootScripts. Nice approach to sysvinit!
• Grml Live Linux
• Kwort Linux
• Leenux
• Linux from Scratch
• Linux Console (Lightweight distribution for children and kids)
• Manjaro OpenRC Forum Wiki
• NuTyX based on Linux From Scratch
• Obarun (Arch/Runit)
• OpenMediaVault
• Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl)
• Parted Magic
• PCLinuxOS
• Pentoo (Gentoo based security-focused live CD)
• Pisi Linux (sysvinit + python init scripts)
• Plamo Linux japanese distro, based on slackware
• Porteus (Slackware based lightweight modular live CD/USB)
• Porteus Kiosk (Gentoo based lightweight kiosk using BusyBox)
• Puppy Linux
• Refracta
• RLSD
• Sabotage Linux
• Salix
• Simplicity Linux (Puppy Linux based with LXDE using SysVinit)
• Slackel
• Slackware
• Slax
• SliTaz (Lightweight live CD/USB using BusyBox/SysVinit)
• Sorcerer Linux
• Source Mage GNU/Linux (beta site)
• Spark Linux
• sta.li
• SystemRescueCd (Gentoo/OpenRC based system rescue disk)
• Tiny Core Linux
• TLD Linux
• TRIOS Linux (Live, based on Debian jessie, XFCE, rEFInd, OpenRC init, very stable)
• TTYLinux
• Unity Linux (MUSL, OpenRC, BusyBox, RPM5, and YUM)
• Univention Corporate Server
• Untangle NG Firewall
• Vector Linux
• Void Linux
• wifislax
• Zenwalk

Embedded

• CeroWrt
• DD-WRT
• Gargoyle
• LibreCMC
• OpenWRT

Others

• 9Front
• AROS Research Operating System
• Darwin
• Debian GNU/Hurd
• Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
• DesktopBSD
• DragonFlyBSD
• Dyson
• FreeBSD
• FreeDOS
• FreeNAS
• FreeVMS
• Genode
• GhostBSD
• GNU/Hurd
• Haiku
• HelenOS
• Inferno
• MidnightBSD
• MINIX
• MirBSD
• NAS4Free
• NetBSD
• NitrOS-9
• Oberon
• OmniOS (illumos)
• OpenBSD
• OpenIndiana (modern OpenSolaris, illumos)
• PC-BSD
• pfSense
• Plan9
• PureDarwin
• ReactOS
• SmartOS (illumos)

Media

Spanish

• ¿Por qué systemd es una mierda? (Spanish)
• ¿Por qué los sysadmins detestamos systemd? (Spanish)
• Systemd es una mierda (Spanish)
• Systemd ataca a desarrollador de Devuan (Spanish)
• Caso real de porque systemd es una mierda (Spanish)
• Devuan (Spanish)
• Humor con systemd (Spanish, Humor)
• Systemd falla editando logs binarios y el sistema crashea (Spanish)

German

• Heise
• Linux Magazin
• Pro-Linux
• TheRadioCC (GAudio Podcast)
• Heise: Devuan: Jetzt solls los gehen

Russian

• OpenNet (Russian)
• Devuan status report (22 dec) (Russian)