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