[Discuss] Ordered a New Laptop

[Steve Litt]

Rich Pieri said on Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:51:29 -0400

>On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:56:48 -0400
>Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like you might want Debian with a different init. You
>> could do that on Debian with a little tinkering, or you could use
>> Devuan.  
>
>As a full time user of the former method, I can unequivocally state
>that sysvinit is not a first class citizen in Debian. Despite their
>instance that freedom is their goal, there is a small number of
>official Debian packages and services which do not work properly with
>sysvinit even with the systemctl shim.

And, more and more Debian devs are simply dropping the sysvinit init
scripts. With Devuan you get a choice of sysvinit or runit. I've been
using runit for 9 years (on Void Linux) and love it.


SteveT

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