Rich Pieri said on Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:51:29 -0400 >On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:56:48 -0400 >Dan Ritter <d...@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 Steve Litt http://444domains.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
