Systemd sucks, I have hated it from it's beginning, and we will never use it. So we rebuilt RHEL/Centos 6.10, added an updated kernel and some newer packages. The result is Mountain Linux because we live on the mountains of North Carolina. It is highly experimental, however it seems to work pretty good on older hardware. In another life, I was a Linux System Admin for about 15 years, and had started with Red Hat 6.x around 1998. I was always a Red Hat guy until 2014, when RHEL 7 was released with systemd instead of what I had been used to. That was the end of my association with Red Hat, and spured my experimenting with making RHEL 6 into something more user friendly. Not wanting to re-invent the wheel, I removed all the RH corporate stuff that I could, built a newer kernel, and rebuild at least part of the rpm packages. It is still a work in progress, and not ready for prime time. We use it for creating our audio and video production.

Many people would question my judgement on doing this, and I admit it would be easier to use something else like Slackware, which I have tried to do. However, for me personally, I have done the Fedora/Red Hat/Centos thing for so long, it is what I prefer. Otherwise I would use Slackware, which has it's own quirks, and I would have to learn their way of doing things. So we just keep on trying to work with what we have already accomplished. We started this project almost 10 years ago, in 2017, and will continue to use it until something better comes along. We are working on Mountain Linux 3, Linux From Scratch.