1. If SUSE wants to preserve choice, it should offer a systemd-free distribution.
2. Agree with silisili's bafflement at how corporations are sticking to RHEL.
2. Agree with silisili's bafflement at how corporations are sticking to RHEL.
Fuck it, let's make a cpu-free distribution whilst we're at it.
It's called FreeBSD. HTH. HAND. ;-)
What? Well, it is! It's Linux-free, it has no systemd and no glibc, and no GPL code so it is de facto NU free.
But it has a Linux emulator and can run Linux binaries.
And there is Illumos, which can also run Linux binaries.
If you don't need the Linux binaries part, there are also DragonflyBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
All FOSS, all current, all out there, working, with active communities.
But you're right in that a company like SUSE could, instead of introducing a new distribution, decide they're "adopting" an existing FOSS distribution (systemd-free or otherwise) and offering hand-holding, call-us-any-time support for corporations deploying it.