On Saturday 17 October 2015 01:33:42 David Wright wrote: > Quoting tom arnall (kloro2...@gmail.com): > > what prevents Debian from providing an alternate boot option in Jessie > > which does not use systemd? My Wheezy system seems to do this. > > (Yes, this is the correct thread for this question.) > > Wheezy had systemd included as a "technology preview". > I don't think Debian does technology retrospectives.
It does provide an alternative option. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sysvinit&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=stable§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=upstart I didn't search for anything else. Lisi