On Thursday 03 December 2020 at 12:11:11, aitor wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> On 12/3/20 12:00 PM, Antony Stone wrote:
> >> I don't know, but sysvinit may have been removed entirely from ubuntu
> >> since the early days of upstart, due to its backward compatibility with
> >> sysV scripts.
> >
> > That's a fair point, however in 18.04 and 20.04 there are no packages
> > with "upstart" in the name either:(
>
> The most recent version of trisquel (a libre spin of ubuntu) does
> include sysvinit:
>
> http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/dists/flidas/main/binary-amd64/Packages

Ooh, thanks - hadn't heard of that one, sounds like it could be just what's
needed :)


Antony.

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