On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 01:06:32AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

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> so whatever i go with, it has to be stable (or small enough for me to
> maintain myself). i can't even contemplate, right now, converting to
> e.g. FreeBSD even though i use fvwm2, because i am going to be in the
> middle of a huge project running qemu, librecad, openscad, blender,
> repsnapper and more, for several more months. i can't afford any
> downtime on it for things like "convert to FreeBSD", esp. on a strange
> piece of hardware as a macbook pro (UEFI boot only).
>
> bottom line is: i *really* have to be careful, when previously i
> would have been happy to just go "yippeee!" :)
>

Bottom line is: if you need something that is immediately stable and
without systemd, then you'd better stay with an old Debian wheezy
(apparently not the 7.8, which already has got some systemd-nonsense
due to backports). I would not put anything mission-critical on a
distro that is still on pre-alpha, although it is in principle a
Debian without systemd... :)

HND

KatolaZ

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