My understanding is that only SuSE, Red Hat, and Ubuntu produce open 
systems ("free to port" with attribution and removal of copyrighted logo 
intellectual property) "enterprise" distros -- and all of these in 
current production release use SystemD, etc., baggage.  Was Torvalds 
behind SystemD, etc.?  Just curious.

On 1/22/21 3:55 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 22/01/2021 16:30, Larry Linder wrote:
>> My only wish is that the SL community start a New Linux based on SL 6.9
>> and erase all the needless junk added to SL 7.5.   Mainly dump the
>> systemctl crap.   If only expands the number of characters I need to
>> type to get it done and contributes nothing to operational efficiency -
>> more bloat ware.
> 
> This is in Debian too.
> 
> If you want a Debian without SystemD then check out Devuan.
>