You want MXLinux - Debian with just enough systemd to work in a modern environment but with SysV init. https://mxlinux.org
> not to mention 5-minute shutdown times
5 minutes? Try total hang on shutdown, and often not starting up. That was my systemd experience. I traced it down to a NFS mount that no amount of tinkering would mount reliably pn boot. Granted that was several years ago, but soured me on systemd.
Re:Systemd 250 Released
by Datagenerator on Friday December 24, 2021 @02:18AM
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Tried FreeBSD? Very consistent and has POLA, the principle of Least astonishment. The proper good stuff Dell Isilon and NetApp are relying on.
Because using journalctl is so bad.. Hell, you can even forward to a text-based logger. And it’s not like it is some proprietary format either
gimme open-rc or gimme death
actually, sysv was fine too
open-rc solves the parallel-startup desire for people who want a faster boot and doesn't hide logs in binary formats which can only be interrogated with specialised tools - my primary reason for leaving Debian-based systems that I'd used for 16 years was having systemd forced on me and trying to deal with how to read good old system logging, not to mention 5-minute shutdown times, slower boot on the same machine than with Ubuntu's upstart or with open-rc.