Devuan is a dutch Linux distro free of systemd (www.devuan.org)

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[-] SatansDaughter@quokk.au 24 points 1 week ago

The main concerns are:

It's mainly developed and funded by red hat a company owned by ibm which has made a lot of bad decisions over the years (of the top of my head I remember their distro's source code was made available to customers only)
it's one piece of software that does a ton of different things, this is generally considered a bad thing as it increases the attack surface for potential vulnerabilities but as far as I understand, since it's one of the most maintained software in the Linux ecosystem the probability of it having critical vulnerabilities is probably still pretty low

That being said, if it works fine for you and those problems don't bother you there's not much reason to use something else.

[-] DjangoFett@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, CachyOS has been working just fine for me. And while both of those points raise an eyebrow for me, I have also heard things about the Cachy team that do the same. Perfect can't be the enemy of good enough. Though to that second point you raised, I just watched a [Veritasium?] video recently on how just such a system-level package was very nearly compromised by what has all the hallmarks of a malicious state actor precisely because it was so seemingly innocuous and open.

I appreciate the clear and concise explanation. Cheers, friend.

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