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Slackware is another option as they are not going to rely on sytemd for their next release. Slackware's take on package management is also quite different from what is common today though.

> And in Debian you can switch to sysvinit or upstart.

I expect this to go the way of the dodo by the release of the next major version.

Only reason it works right now is that Canonical had interest in maintaining a shim between the systemd APIs and upstart. As both Debian and Ubuntu now defaults to systemd, i expect said shim to rot on the vine.

Awesome that Debian gives you an option. This may be my excuse to finally switch from RHEL/CentOS.

For how-to: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=37871