[Discuss] Ordered a New Laptop

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 21:51:29 EDT 2024


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.

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