Re: [trinity-users] "Start Job" - switching to svsvinit-devuan - partitioning

On Saturday 17 March 2018 21:25:04 Felix Miata wrote: I did give the list a look, and it is impressive; however, it isn't GNU/Linux (or at least, the gnu.org site doesn't approve of Knoppix). http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html There is a distro based on Knoppix that is GNU/Linux: "Musix, a GNU+Linux distribution based on Knoppix, with special emphasis on audio production"; but I have other needs. I also don't necessary need a live disc, except for special tasks like this. I won't swear off comparing different distros, but I am getting more specific about my criteria and needs. Anyway, I don't run any of the 'buntus (although I used to do so). I didn't like where Canonical was going, and wanted to get into Debian (which is also older than Ubuntu). Now, however, I don't like this systemd thing, so I am preparing to move on to Devuan, which sticks to the principles on which Debian was founded. It is important to me to wean myself from non-free, proprietary software, and any software that I cannot use and modify however I wish. I don't think of myself as a GNU/Linux purist, nor an evangelist or proselytiser for free/libre. And it might be that I will, on occasion, use packages that are non-free; but I do like to feel that I own my own computer, that I am in control of what goes on under the hood, and that I can hack my own system to make it do what I want. Ergo, Knoppix doesn't appear to suit me, though I am glad to hear about its virtues, or to be corrected if you feel that I am wrong about it not being GNU/Linux. And I don't regard others as less enlightened for using another OS. (I even have good friends who run the rotten Apple and even Windoze; good folks who don't have the patience for Linux anything, but who also have to work and pay the bills, or whose jobs require them to run proprietary systems.) Other people have needs that are different from mine. Bill