There were some statements about Ubuntu / linux somewhere up thread I felt a need to correct.
The only statement on Ubuntu that is necessary to remember, for it is true, is: "Ubuntu is zulu for 'I can't install Devuan'"
So what is a " devuan " then ?! ![Confused :-//](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/confused0024.gif.pagespeed.ce.5xOqKkq0Co.gif)
First, there was Linux. And it came in a box that said "Slackware". And it was almost as sensibly packaged as The True Distribution, that out of Berkeley. Its birth, the Boot, was clear and called "rc.local". Then came the Red Hat. And there was support and there was RPM. And the rich people paid for it, for they were accustomed to paying. And the rich people wanted the Boot from the Fifth System of The Real Unix. And so the Red Hat made the Fifth System Boot happen.
The idealistic people saw that the want of the Red Hat was erratic and not according to the GNU. So they made the Debian. And the Debian was slow to update, for it was greatly concerned with the freedom and righteousness of all. But Debian had apt and there was Order. And there was, after some time, also the Fifth System Boot.
But the Debian was not pretty, for it was greatly concerned with the freedom and righteousness of all.
Seeing that it was good in its heart, the Shuttleworth took the Debian and made all decisions that in the name of freedom and righteousness of all in Debian had been left to the User, and they took the Gnome and made half-assed config dialogs. They called this glittering bodge-Job Ubuntu.
The Red Hat, meanwhile, had toiled hard at pleasing the rich men and the rich men had given the Red Hat money and told the Red Hat that they wanted it to be the sole Linux. So the Red Hat took a man in their service, a man that had been beaten by the people for he had written bad software. But Red Hat saw that the man had a strong, if misguided, will. Armed with the great powers of the men behind the Red Hat, the beaten man, known as The Lennart, set out to unify the world in revenge.
Thus, the systemd was born.
The Shuttleworth, with their shallow philosophy and their desire to please in the moment, saw that the systemd was a glittering idol. And so they took it to them and put it in the Ubuntu. And it came to be so, that all the software suddenly wanted the systemd even if the systemd was not of the Unix Way, for it did a lot of things and it did not do them well.
The greyest of the beards in the Debian saw that this was not good. But the children and the shallow people who had been brought up on the Ubuntu had come to the Debian and started to want change that was not properly considered. There was a vote, and a great fighting of words. And many words were said that should not have been uttered. In the end the people who do not understand Unix prevailed, and the greyest of the beards made an exodus into the desert of the Fifth System Boot.
In the desert there was no graphical boot, but the greyest beards were pure in their hearts and minds, and their knowledge was vast. They took the things in the Debian that were good, and built a purer one, which they called the Devuan. And there is joy.
Or, one can run any of the BSD variants, because they're much, much better than any Linux.