contributors will only ever contribute code to the mainline kernel
Not if they're all banned. Accuse them of using the wrong pronouns or saying nigger. They treat any denial of an accusation as proof of guilt.
Then welcome them to contribute to the fork, which doesn't have to be from before the code of conduct. You can fork the latest kernel and remove the CoC. It's not a license. Take the Rust bits and RIIC.
Devuan exists specifically because a bunch of people were mad that Debian forced Systemd adoption. But they recently decided it was too hard to resist usrmerge.
I'm not sure about the politics, but there are systemd-free distros like Void and a couple forks like Devuan and Artix. They would still use the same kernel though, not sure if there is any way around that.
Is there any way to strip this shit from Linux, or is there a distro that doesn't buy into this bullshit?
Not if they're all banned. Accuse them of using the wrong pronouns or saying nigger. They treat any denial of an accusation as proof of guilt.
Then welcome them to contribute to the fork, which doesn't have to be from before the code of conduct. You can fork the latest kernel and remove the CoC. It's not a license. Take the Rust bits and RIIC.
Devuan exists specifically because a bunch of people were mad that Debian forced Systemd adoption. But they recently decided it was too hard to resist usrmerge.
I'm not sure about the politics, but there are systemd-free distros like Void and a couple forks like Devuan and Artix. They would still use the same kernel though, not sure if there is any way around that.
The BSDs (Free, Open, Net) are starting to become the option for trimmed down Unix-like systems.
You can also go with deeply embedded Linux systems like buildroot, but you will have to really know what you're doing to get something usable.