Message-ID: <62f97fdd@news.ausics.net> 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 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <0ac05b8c-01d1-4f5a-ac35-8888f44a20abn@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 15 Aug 2022 09:06:05 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 43 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35466 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. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#