[Discuss] Debian 12 in the Cloud

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Kent Borg wrote: 
> much RAM, but I ran into problems with 512 MiB when just setting things up:
> running emacs, installing packages? And why does systemd think it needs to
> be a whole damn OS in and of itself? It is a pig. And it is complex making,
> it a security risk. (Yes, I blame systemd for the xz security breach that
> nearly backdoored sshd all over the internet. No, systemd should *not* be
> patching other code, certainly not sshd. Grrr.)

If you're using Debian stable:

sudo apt install sysvinit-core

reboot.

Everything should come up again just fine on a non-desktop
system. Things can be arranged on a desktop system but are
somewhat more involved.

-dsr-