On Saturday 06 April 2019 02:10:40 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2019 Fri, 5 Apr 16:02:22 -0700
William Morder scripsit:
On Friday 05 April 2019 15:40:50 Mike Bird wrote: [...] 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.
That will probably never happen. Debian is not only to drop sysv support sooner or later, it will drop all support for anything else than systemd.
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.
I'm running Devuan Beowulf, it's perfeorming verry nicely. Even LinuxCNC works well :-)
Nik
;-)
It didn't occur to me until I read this, but maybe I ought to try just "leap-frogging" over Ascii/Stretch, and go straight to Beowulf/Buster. My issues with Kmail and my wireless interface might be specific to Ascii/Stretch, whereas I was supposing that it is some change that will affect whatever Debian-type system I try to install.
Usually I go straight through the distros one after another, in the hope that changes to familiar packages will be gradual.
Bill