It's an activist's site. Its theme is all about opposition to systemd, but in reality it's an "echo chamber" for the main contributor's political opinions. As I recall, they had a fall out with the Devuan project and then decided to cease all coverage of Devuan - despite it being arguably the No. 1 Linux distribution which doesn't implement systemd.
Echo chamber was not meant to be, it was meant to be a community's echo chamber. Whether people are too lazy (or possibly uninterested to contribute) is not the fault of the editor. Some did, and some still do though, it is by no means intended as a one person "echo chamber". And you know it because you were invited to be a contributor and turned it down (or never accepted the invitation).
Now, about Devuan. This "fall out" which you might not remember the details of was catching Devuan red-handed with their pants down and all they could do was to shut the whistleblower's mouth. THEY DECEIVED users that they were using their tor/onion address to forward their repository and were using it to test this alternative repository screen (between debian and their devuan pkgs) making the blend nearly impossible to distinguish. They did this for 3 months without users knowing, till one noticed a difference between their clear repositories and the onion ones, producing variable and breaking upgrades. Then there was an issue of violating tor's fundamental rules, of forwarding calls to the repositories out in the clear and back into onion network for a 2nd time, which torproject for years has discouraged people from doing. How they did it? They are able to screen out which connections came "from" the onion network and forwarded them back to the debian onion address, while the ones that came from clear were going to clear. So they were being the middleman in the middle of two onion transactions. Very spooky? Instead of answering and explaining they were dismissing the claims and banned the person asking questions. Within days they changed their little "experiment" and announced their "amprolla" repository system as exiting beta testing and becoming THE repository system.
Antix has been at it, Debian without systemd, for much much longer than Devuan 1.0, and quite successfully. AntiX also provided for as long as they could the option of not using elogind but if you need a logind to use consolekit2. Devuan adopted elogind, the lazy way around repackaging upstream desktop packages from day one.
You are also (those who mention it) lying that the blog doesn't talk about Devuan. For a long while half the articles were about devuan. The blog started pretty much covering Artix and Devuan, before it moved to better, cleaner, and more dedicated solutions. I myself even contributed graphic material with Devuan logos to the project, and they are still up on the blog. All you had to do is look, search, use the Devuan tag for all the Devuan related material. The last couple of articles about it is revealing the details of this "Fall Out".
The Ataraxia guy was busting my balls a few months ago about being listed as a systemd free linux distribution, so I added it, but really I didn't know about it, there was no intention to block it. I even made an installation and played with it. Then some community member left me a comment a month or two afterwards about ataraxia porting systemd into musl (which I thought was impossible) and when I asked him how did he get it done, he responded with "patching". So I took it back out. That's all! On a list of linux systems without systemd distributions that include or utilize systemd as their primary init setup have no place. A few days I dropped Nutyx.
Honestly, the pressure to maintain "popular" desktops and not utilize systemd or parts of its functionality is getting harder and harder each day. The most sincere in fighting the intrusion off have two options. Stop supporting certain complicated desktops, and their responding software, or give up the struggle and conform to IBM's totalitarian control of linux.
At this stage, I think saying that you are not using systemd but using elogind is in a way dissonest. You are trying to deceive users that you are brave to defend their choice not to use it, but use a large chunk of its functionality renamed. The reason systemd is intrusive is not because of its init setup and how it runs services, but how it live and controlling userspace through logind and dbus.
Why am I here?
Well Cynwulf suggested that if I want to escape this madness I should try something non-linux instead, without really trying to sell freeBSD, he is not a salesman. He has made this clear
My 2nd goal is to learn how to use this system well enough so I can see how s6 and 66 can be ported into this system as well. Running well in every linux tried is not a complete achievement.
What is scary about this is zfs and its latest development. So I came here to find more zfs experts discussing it because linux people seem to be getting excited about something they know very little about.
