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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
