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Of course, since the headlined article mentions the absence of systemd, this raises the question of whether there is udev in there.

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They do have it: http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/gnustep-2.5.txt

udev existed before systemd, but was merged to it sometime in 2014. By quick Googling there are still several forks that maintain it as a separate component.

My understanding is it's in the same repository (for convenience), but is logically separate, so "forking" it mainly means copying the correct directory.

No, it's tied to systemd. That was one of the big reasons behind systemd adoption in the first place.

Eh, not really. Many Parabola users who use OpenRC instead of systemd still use systemd-udev, as opposed to eudev or one of the other non-system forks.

I don't know what they use, but there's always eudev, Gentoo's fork which works just fine, and offers pretty much everything that udev offers (except for the systemd dependency).

The headlined article explains that it is Debian 9, which does not have eudev, nor vdev (which is in Devuan), nor Suckless mdev.

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