systemd cat and GNU cat hugging a Linux cat.
I like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Artix, and Devuan.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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GNU cat
You mean GNU cat?
Nintendo 3DS
FreeBSD! It's so simple, and so reliable
what is that little pixel cat at the top? It also appears on https://katia.ripe.net/ is it referencing something?
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Neither Haiku or 9front use systemd, and they're both very interesting from a technical and design perspective (though not for their init systems).
If it has to be a Linux distribution I would say Damn Small Linux (DSL), because its really impressive just how few resources it requires. You can run x windows and even browse the web (using Dillo) on a system that's small enough to fit in the L3 cache of some modern CPUs.
I don't daily drive any of these though, so they might not count as my "favorite".
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Alpine Linux would be my favourite, although I only use it as a server distro. I use Artix as my daily driver for personal computers because of the AUR and glibc (Alpine is musl). I also enjoy Void but it's not got as much software as Artix repos + AUR.
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postmarketOS, though they are in the process of migrating to systemd. Not that I personally mind terribly much, even if it feels like a bit of an odd choice. So maybe I should say Alpine.
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OpenWRT
systemd is great
Windows 7
In terms of Linux, either Devuan sysvinit, Void, or Alpine.
I am also a fan of BSD.
GNU Guix System, using GNU Shepherd as init. It does its job quite well.
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OpenBSD
I have to write startup scripts time-to-time and I have to say that I donβt miss at all the old init-system.
Not that systemd donβt have flaws, but in old init-system even simplest daemon took too many lines. Not to mention hacky comment definitions.
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Artix is an under-appreciated gem.
MX Linux of course