On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 01:06:32AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[cut] > > so whatever i go with, it has to be stable (or small enough for me to > maintain myself). i can't even contemplate, right now, converting to > e.g. FreeBSD even though i use fvwm2, because i am going to be in the > middle of a huge project running qemu, librecad, openscad, blender, > repsnapper and more, for several more months. i can't afford any > downtime on it for things like "convert to FreeBSD", esp. on a strange > piece of hardware as a macbook pro (UEFI boot only). > > bottom line is: i *really* have to be careful, when previously i > would have been happy to just go "yippeee!" :) > Bottom line is: if you need something that is immediately stable and without systemd, then you'd better stay with an old Debian wheezy (apparently not the 7.8, which already has got some systemd-nonsense due to backports). I would not put anything mission-critical on a distro that is still on pre-alpha, although it is in principle a Debian without systemd... :) HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng