On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 08:51:47PM -0000, dev1fanboy@??? wrote:


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> Now you should simply reboot so that you are using the kernel
> shipped with Devuan:
>
> root@devuan:~# reboot
>

Thank you very much. Very nice guide, but please: do not urge people
to reboot, ever. There is simply no need at all to reboot, and in the
ovewhelming majority of use cases it is not necessary at all to use
the latest kernel available, unless using "the kernel shipped with
Devuan" is the only way for you to get a crappy device finally
work. But if your crappy devices are already working, just avoid
rebooting, unless you need to power the system down for some other
reason.

It seems to me that the systemd hype is pushing forward a generation
of people who (erroneously) think that rebooting is the solution,
especially because with some very ugly systemd bugs, rebooting is the
*only* solution. It's important for us to say clearly and to prove
that a functioning Unix system does not neet to be rebooted at all,
ever, for any reason. Even when you are upgrading the entire
system. This used to be the case also for Debian, until wheezy. I am
not the only one who had at least one machine (the same) successively
upgraded from potato to woody to sarge to etch to lenny to squeeze to
wheezy, and did not have to reboot after any of those dist-upgrades.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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