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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
