I've been looking for an opportunity to tell you all for the last few weeks
that my experience with Devuan has been incredible! I've been using it on
VMs and on my personal laptop. It's AMAZING to be able to use a distro that
doesn't hang at startup or shutdown. Everything seems so much faster and
responsive!

I *have* noticed that some packages don't like being started with init
scripts, especially when the distro doesn't identify with Debian codename.
I'm gonna try to fix this myself before I complain about it publicly.
Consider this as a mere observation ATM.

Anyway, I'm fully behind you all. If there's some small job I can do to
help you out, let me know. I'm a full time software developer, but without
any experience in distro development or maintenance.

Thank you all!

Andrew Jackman
kd7nyq@???


On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 9:25 AM <golinux@???> wrote:

> This email was sent to the freedom address. I forwarded it but it's
> stuck in moderation for several days so I thought I'd share it via my
> account. Another happy and grateful Devuan user! :D
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Dear Devuan devs
> I've been using Linux since 1996, red hat at first because it was the
> only distro I could find (no internet), and then Debian because well...
> It was rock solid and so much better.
> Fast forward to a few years ago, the distro I loved so much sold its
> soul to systemd. At first I tried to learn how to use this systemd crap,
> I honestly did try to, until I ran into an ARM specific bug, dismissed
> as NOTABUG by the one who shall not be named, and gave up.
> And then you popped up, restoring Debian to its past glory and I can't
> say how grateful I am. No systemd, no network manager by default, no
> gnomewares, a true powerful and simple Linux distribution !
> In my eyes you are not a fork, you are the true spirit of Debian and the
> official Debian is no more than redhat-with-apt.
> So thank you, thank you so much!
>
> P.S: you can share this email if you want to, but please do it
> anonymously, I hate to see my name popping up in Google.
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