On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:15:14 +0000 Michael Howard <m...@dewberryfields.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/03/2020 14:28, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:37:47 -0400 > > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: > > > >> There is devuan-ascii 2.x but I don't know its equivalent to buster. > >> That system maintained sysv and still has support. > > ASCII is Stretch without systemd or any of the dependencies. Devuan > > hasn't release its "Buster" version yet. > > > > B > > > It can be upgraded to 'beowulf' using apt of course. I did that some months ago with Ascii running in Virtualbox. And it did work, but there were enough problems then that it wasn't suitable for general use -- just evaluation. Perhaps there have been improvements since then, but I'll wait for Beowulf to be officially released before checking it out again. Currently, I'll stick with Stretch running sysvinit until long term support for ceases. B