[JdeBP]

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

[vesinisa]

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.

[ktRolster]

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

[gens]

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

[LukeShu]

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.

[notalaser]

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).

[JdeBP]

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