I was wondering if there are any resonably up-to-date distros that use the SystemV init system.
I am looking for a distro that comes with kernel version higher than 3.11 (preferably 3.14), I have a Radeon R7 260x and tried 3.10 and 3.11 and got a screen full of artifacts, and running with nomodeset is very annoying. Tested my card and it works with 3.14 and newer.
I am looking for a distro with the System V init system because I want to see how that works. I'm not looking to game or doing anything that requires a lot of performance.
Debian stable still has SysV Init as default, systemd as option.
It's however equipped by default with the complete archaic kernel 3.2, but you can try installing just a more recent kernel, and see whether that gives you a viable system.
SysV Init is the past though, there isn't any benefit at all using it, in fact, all the SysV Init commands are aliased in Systemd, so the "old" commands still work. Systemd has a lot of advantages, especially in terms of efficient debugging and efficient security auditing. I don't know how productive it is to want to study SysV Init at this point.
I would definitely recommend kernel 3.16 for a Radeon R-series!!! There is more performance in 3.16 in comparison to 3.14, which provided only basic support for the R-series.
Yeah, thought about Debian, then saw it came with linux 3.2. I'll give it a try in a few days and then install the Debian Jessie kernel, I think that's at 3.14, so it will work with my GPU. I'm still open to other suggestion.
I am simply curious about init, I don't want to use it all the time.
And about linux 3.16, yes, that's what I am using right now, the 3.14 linux kernel is the oldest kernel version that I tried and it worked.