On October 4, 2021 10:48:18 AM CDT, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote: >Ordinarily, nothing, but an init system is foundational, outweighed in importance only by the kernel.

Indeed, which is why its important to have an init system that works.

>IMO, init system is a /really/ dumb basis for choosing a distro

So the foundational component of the operating system is a dumb basis for choosing one? In my experience, systemd has been nothing but breakage after updates, getting stuck during boot, and in the grand scheme of things its full of security flaws.

>To me it's dumb to select a derivative distro as a foundation for TDE. OTOH, any distro TDE provides packages for should be just fine for anyone who needs help to select a distro to switch to from some other distro.

So why bother saying that derivative distros are a dumb choice if TDE can work with anything? Slackware is a derivative distro forked from SLS, is it dumb to use TDE with it?