I was looking into Hyperbola Linux, when I came across this post. In this post it is outlined why Hyperbola Linux is switching to a BSD base. A bold move, but I hope it works out for the team.
However, I am curious about the four points they outlined as reasons for switching away from the Linux kernel. Is the Linux kernel really careening down a path of instability and binary blobs, or is this just a case of the Linux kernel’s development not fitting with Hyperbola’s design goals?
But that Arch dev said nothing about including proprietary firmware to make your wifi chip work out of the box. That has nothing to do with systemd. The issue is that system v was released in 1983 and it’s archaic and out of date. Systemd is not proprietary. People hate it because they got used to system v and hate that this replacement supplanted their favored way of doing things, which sucked and was awful.
There’s no virtue in spending hours writing and troubleshooting custom init scripts just because it’s less advanced and requires more work.
Linux isn’t getting “bloated.” Process supervision and service dependency management isn’t “bloat.” These are necessary and valuable features. People are just put out that how it used to be isn’t how it is now and are spiralling into conspiracy theorizing because all the major distros moved on and now they’re in the minority.