On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:17:39 -0500
Fungi4All <fungilife@???> wrote:

> Sorry for CCing but if this does not get to the list and you do
> respond please include it.
>
> > From: picamanic@???
> > To: dng@???
> >
> > After replacing whatever init comes with the distro [salix, void,
> > devuan], with a 150 line sinit-based script [now using busybox and
> > sdhcp]. This allows me to setup the iptables firewall BEFORE
> > starting the network [almost every other distro take note]. This
> > setup is mostly portable across disparate non-systemd distros.
>
> This sounds very interesting and I am willing to research it, if you
> can help with some promised references to simplify the search, it
> would be appreciated. But why do you leave this puzzling remark about
> desperate distros. What do you mean by desperate distros. That are
> struggling to get their init system to work? In my experience they
> all seem to be working fine, and to newbs coming from systemd distros
> it is mind-boggling how simple they are.
>

No, 'disparate' not 'desparate' ;-)

Wonderful thing the English language, change one letter and totally
change the meaning.

disparate is an adjective and it means:

Essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.

Rowland

PS, though thinking about it, perhaps you could use 'desparate' when
discussing systemd distros ;-)