Well they forgot to list Slackware. It does not use systemd either.<p>edit: just read it again, it is a list of OS he likes, so it was not an omission :)
Shepherd is probably a good alternative, and it can be used standalone or with Guix:<p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/</a>
To the commenters: this article explicitly wasn't meant to be exhaustive or even introductory. The two links he embeds near the beginning were:<p>- Linux distributions without systemd (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190208034948/http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_distributions_without_systemd" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20190208034948/http://without-sy...</a>)<p>- Operating systems without systemd (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190208034948/http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_distributions_without_systemd" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20190208034948/http://without-sy...</a>)<p>Then he adds, "Here I’m just going to mention a few operating systems that I personally have found interesting." So these few are just ones where he thought he had something fresh to say. He did not aim to compete with the more objective lists he just mentioned.
Just finished reading Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and if we could travel back and show the original hackers at MIT things we use in 2020 like systemd, electron etc. I think they would be in complete disbelief over the amount of bloat, and ask us why we stopped caring and started to accept software design like that.
A few linux linux distos, GNU Hurd experiment, rust experiment, BeOS inspired, but none of the main stream BSD OSes? Not including the most popular linux distribution that doesn't have systemd - Android. Not including macOS, but i guess it's not OSS, so it doesn't count. Doesn't include Alpine linux.<p>That list is hella weird and should be named "Experimental OS that I'm curious about, but don't want to run myself. Also, none of them has systemd"
Plug for Void, the community recently added support[0] for the Pinebook Pro, so it's been my daily driver for a few months now.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/void-linux/void-mklive/issues/105" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/void-linux/void-mklive/issues/105</a>
Android - anyone? Android is linux, it's init is simple and the user experience obviously successful. There is a ton here for other distros to learn and improve on.
I think, that sums up what's wrong with the Linux world right now.<p>NixOS and GuixSD being the next generation of distributions and people are calling it <i>"neat project with some unique features, but it is more fun as an intellectual curiosity than as something practical"</i> while arguing if a distribution should use Systemd or not...