Am 2017-07-09 17:10, schrieb Edward Bartolo:
I have been running Devuan since August of two years ago, and I do not regret it. Being forced to do Linux the way seen from above, would have definitely killed my motivation to use a different OS completely. Devuan is giving me freedom; Devuan is not only about init freedom, but much much more. Devuan is about placing users' freedom at the heart of software design. Devuan is not about advertising a product that users must accept. If it were for that, its creation would have been useless.
I totally agree with Edward. I feel also being a Unix Veteran. My first steps were with SCO Unix, Kodaks Interactive Unix, Suns Solaris and CDC's EP/IX, long before existence of Linux.
I don't mind if its now called Linux or *BSD. Important is, that it's a open and free Unix compatible operating system. Red Hat and Mr. Poettering are trying (with success) to make Linux a monolithic and proprietary system like Windows is. This is not Unix, and this is not software freedom.
My heart beats for BSD systems, but I'm using Linux because many applications I need are not available for BSD (vmware, drivers for chip card readers for onlne banking, and so on). But when Linux goes Windows (with systemd), that's not my OS. I hope that Devuan will win the fight, and keep Linux a free and open OS.
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