On Fri, 17 May 2024 11:57:46 +0200
Martin Steigerwald <martin@???> wrote:

> Peter Duffy - 17.05.24, 10:58:08 CEST:
> > On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 10:23 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > >
> > > SUSE switched over to Systemd as well before Debian did.
> >
> > SUSE is based on the RPM package system, which is heavily linked to Red
> […]
> > (Aside: as far as I know, there's as yet no RPM-based distribution
> > which doesn't use systemd. It's been on my mind for years that it
> > would at least be an interesting experiment to install an RPM-based
> > distro and then work through the equivalent of the process which was
> > used to remove systemd from debian.)
>
> Well, yeah, now that you write it:
>
> I am not aware of any RPM based alternative init system distributions
> either.

Hi,

There is PClinuxOS https://www.pclinuxos.com/

PCLinuxOS does not use systemd. Instead, it uses SysV init and “will continue to do so for the foreseeable future“.

Ciao,
Tito

> Interesting.
>
> Thanks for noting that.
>