On Friday 05 April 2019 15:40:50 Mike Bird wrote:
On Fri April 5 2019 14:53:15 William Morder wrote:
I really want to stick with the Devuan sysvinit. Everything runs great, as I said, except for a few issues (addressed in other threads), and of course the fact that TDE doesn't "come with" as a standard menu choice for desktop.
FWIW, after three years with Devuan we're back to Debian.
The original Stretch support for sysvinit was badly damaged but nowaways Stretch with backports is working fine on both laptops and servers, and we believe Buster will be just as good.
Devuan was more than 99.6% Debian with just a few small changes to a few files. Now that Debian is working with sysvinit again we prefer to get files direct from the source with timely security updates.
(YMMV)
--Mike
If Debian does indeed run with sysvinit and no fussing round trying to uninstall systemd, etc. (which gave me lots of grief), then I may give this a try whenever next I need to reinstall ... which might be a while, because, like I said, it has been running great, or almost great.
I do want to upgrade to Ascii or Buster, at least, so that I get current security patches. Otherwise I wouldn't bother you guys with my problems.
;-)
Bill