On Friday 05 April 2019 15:40:50 Mike Bird wrote:
> On Fri April 5 2019 14:53:15 William Morder wrote:
> > I really want to stick with the Devuan sysvinit. Everything runs great,
> > as I said, except for a few issues (addressed in other threads), and of
> > course the fact that TDE doesn't "come with" as a standard menu choice
> > for desktop.
>
> FWIW, after three years with Devuan we're back to Debian.
>
> The original Stretch support for sysvinit was badly damaged but
> nowaways Stretch with backports is working fine on both laptops
> and servers, and we believe Buster will be just as good.
>
> Devuan was more than 99.6% Debian with just a few small changes
> to a few files.  Now that Debian is working with sysvinit again
> we prefer to get files direct from the source with timely security
> updates.
>
> (YMMV)
>
> --Mike
>

If Debian does indeed run with sysvinit and no fussing round trying to 
uninstall systemd, etc. (which gave me lots of grief), then I may give this a 
try whenever next I need to reinstall ... which might be a while, because, 
like I said, it has been running great, or almost great. 

I do want to upgrade to Ascii or Buster, at least, so that I get current 
security patches. Otherwise I wouldn't bother you guys with my problems. 

;-)

Bill