On Saturday 06 April 2019 02:10:40 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Anno domini 2019 Fri, 5 Apr 16:02:22 -0700
>
>  William Morder scripsit:
> > On Friday 05 April 2019 15:40:50 Mike Bird wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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.
>
> That will probably never happen. Debian is not only to drop sysv support
> sooner or later, it will drop all support for anything else than systemd.
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm running Devuan Beowulf, it's perfeorming verry nicely. Even LinuxCNC
> works well :-)
>
> Nik
>
> > ;-)
> >

It didn't occur to me until I read this, but maybe I ought to try 
just "leap-frogging" over Ascii/Stretch, and go straight to Beowulf/Buster. 
My issues with Kmail and my wireless interface might be specific to 
Ascii/Stretch, whereas I was supposing that it is some change that will 
affect whatever Debian-type system I try to install. 

Usually I go straight through the distros one after another, in the hope that 
changes to familiar packages will be gradual. 

Bill