Re:Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
by 112233 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:27AM
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But why is there no such pushback agains linux kernel? What makes that monolith you cannot customize different enough from systemd? What if I don't want to use in-kernel usb stack, or audit, or key management, or LSM modules, or ELF binfmt support, or filesystems — you are forced by the distro to use all those features. Yet with systemd it's somehow different. I'm genuinely curious
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For kernel, anyone is able to change flags and recompile and run it in a few mins. It is possible and well documented.
It's very much not the same situation for systemd.
So your point is distros provide dedicated tooling for simple recompiling of kernel (that is different from other distro packages), but do not have dedicated tooling for systemd? Fair point, but does not address the kernel being orders of magnitude bigger monolith than systemd.
Say you disabled LSM, rebuilt, now all stuff that requires Selinux does not work. Now what?