> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Didier Kryn" <kryn@???>
>>       Considering Devuan is a major lifeboat of free Linux-based OS, I'm
>> anxious about its destiny and therefore trying to figure out who is
>> onboard, I mean the audience.
> For me, the line between desktop and server is very blurred.  I use Debian
> in a home environment for myself and family members.  I am responsible for
> the maintenance of 11 Debian machines.

     I am currently maintaining a dozen of embedded powerpcs, a dozen 
Dell PowerEdge servers, 3 desktops and my HP laptop, for my job, all 
running wheezy. Plus a desktop at home. But I'm not a professional 
programmer. I learned what I needed for my job. When considering 
Debian's package management, or autotools I feel like a bug 
contemplating an ophicleide. No, actually the bug does not care, but you 
see what I mean.

      I started programming in C in 1980, when Motorolla produced the 
6809 microprocessor, with a revolutionary feature: instruction address 
could be indexed  by a register. This allowed PIC, and Microware 
produced the OS9 system, with a C compiler producing PIC by default and 
a brand of Emacs. When their development model became crazy, I switched 
to Linux, in the 90's. Never touched BSD, but I guess it's familiar. I 
learned Ada 6 or 7 years ago and I loved it.

     I will retire in ~one month and I consider using part of my leisure 
building Pi-Tops for everybody around me. And I hope I can install 
Devuan on them. Never liked Gnome. It was too ugly from the begining. I 
used KDE until it started to regress. Now on xfce4, but I will give a 
try to some of the slim DE described by Steve Litt on his web pages. 
Also for the fun of their exotic look and style.