[Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On 11/29/2014 12:13 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> https://devuan.org/
>
> "Devuan will derive its own installer and package repositories from 
> Debian, modifying them where necessary, with the first goal of 
> removing systemd, still inheriting the Debian development workflow 
> while continuing it on a different path: free from bloat as a 
> minimalist base distro should be. Our objective for the spring of 2015 
> is that users will be able to switch from Debian 7 to Devuan 1 
> smoothly, as if they would dist-upgrade to Jessie, and start using our 
> package repositories.
>

Someone, please give me a one-sentence answer I can recite to any suit 
who asks me what the difference is.

I can't use words like "systemd": their eyes will glaze over. TIA.

Bill

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