Hi Steve,

Steve Litt writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Devuan's #34 on Distrowatch. Not too shabby!
>
> Runit using Void is #40. Redhat, the clowns who started this whole
> systemd thing, are down at #64.

I don't want to spoil your party but have you looked at Fedora, at #8,
and CentOS, at #19? The fact that Red Hat is a good deal lower on the
list probably has a lot to do with its pricing[1].

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms

> Meanwhile, at #18, AntiX offers a choice between sysvinit and runit.
> And at #50, Artix offers a choice between OpenRC, runit and s6. It's
> wonderful to see s6 make it into a distro. And at #44, Alpine Linux
> uses either OpenRC or Busybox. It's great to see a distro use Busybox.
>
> The big news is this though. #1 on the list, MX Linux, uses sysvinit.
> The guys with red hats, the FreeDesktop hipsters and the Poetterpuppies
> can all gloat that most distros use systemd, but, ummm, what about the
> #1 distro?
>
> SteveT

Hope this helps,
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