Re: Debian *not very good

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian *not very good
Date	2016-11-26 05:20 +0100
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oldbluebear composed on 2016-11-25 15:21 (UTC):

> I am at the point where I am now seriously going to look at what other
> Linux versions are available or maybe pull one of the earlier Debian
> Distro CDs I still have in my store and load that simply to get back an
> environment in which I can work.
...
> How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV?

Maybe a do-over would make more sense. A look at these Debian-derived 
opportunities for simpler times might be worth your time:

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://exegnulinux.net/

Both offer Grub Legacy at least via option.

If you'd rather a pure Debian path initially resulting in the latter Desktop 
(TDE, a fork of KDE3), you could do a fresh Debian minimal installation with 
sysvinit-core, then add TDE sources and apt to it (minimal with TDE is what I do 
as a matter of course, allowing the systemd infection).

Addendum: more ways to get TDE on Debian than I knew:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/LiveCDs
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Debian *not very good oldbluebear <nvis@eircom.net> - 2016-11-25 16:50 +0100
  Re: Debian *not very good Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-25 17:40 +0100
    Re: Debian *not very good The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-11-25 21:40 +0100
      Re: Debian *not very good David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-26 04:00 +0100
    Re: Debian *not very good Latincom <latincom@vcn.bc.ca> - 2016-11-25 22:30 +0100
      Re: Debian *not very good Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-26 01:00 +0100
      Re: Debian *not very good Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 01:00 +0100
        Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-26 10:20 +0100
          Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-26 11:50 +0100
            Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-26 14:50 +0100
            Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-26 15:10 +0100
              Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-26 16:00 +0100
                Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 18:40 +0100
            Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> - 2016-12-03 19:10 +0100
          Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-11-27 22:50 +0100
          Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good] Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 04:40 +0100
      Re: Debian *not very good Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-11-26 18:40 +0100
        Re: Debian *not very good Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-11-26 19:00 +0100
        Re: Debian *not very good Latincom <latincom@vcn.bc.ca> - 2016-11-28 08:30 +0100
  Network connection fails during boot [Was: Debian *not very good] Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-25 18:00 +0100
  Re: Debian *not very good David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-11-25 21:10 +0100
  Re: Debian *not very good Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-26 00:10 +0100
  Re: Debian *not very good Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-26 05:20 +0100
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