Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular

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From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular
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Date	2022-08-15 09:06 +1000
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vladimir.rodionov@gmail.com <vladimir.rodionov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, good news. I've just checked and it ships with SysV init by
> default!

Indeed it does, via the AntiX project that it's based on
(personally I much prefer AntiX, but each to their own). One thing
to note is that although Systemd-free, the developers decided to
still use the Debian package repos and supplement them with their
own "nosystemd" (or some label like that) packages that they host
on their own servers/mirrors. This is in contrast to the Devuan
project which maintains its own package repo for all packages so
that a standard installation doesn't touch the Debian repos at all.

I tried going down both paths (installing Devuan via Star Linux,
which is mainly just a more stripped-down distro than the official
Devuan release). Devuan has been OK, except that there aren't any
official package repo mirrors in Australia, but I haven't attempted
a OS version upgrade with it yet. With AntiX I have attempted an
upgrade, and spent a few hours in dependency hell because the
package managers (when apt-get failed, I moved to Aptitude) tended
to select newer Systemd-based packages on the Debian servers
instead of the AntiX ones when resolving dependencies. At the same
time I couldn't just remove the Debian repos from
/etc/apt/sources.list because most of the other dependencies were
only on the Debian servers, so the only way to go was to take
things one error message at a time and select all the
Systemd-related package versions manually (geeze it's wormed its
way into a lot of stuff!).

I don't see how I'd have the same problem with Devuan because it's
only using Devuan's own repos for everything, so I've settled on
Devuan-based distros as my Debian replacement moving forward.
Though not having actually tried a version upgrage with Devuan
myself yet, I guess it could potentially have its own problems, but
I doubt it.

No, I don't know of a Devuan-based equivalent to MX Linux. MX isn't
really to my taste anyway.

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