Some of you may wish to look at this story on Google News today:

    The Best Linux Distributions Without systemd
    https://www.howtogeek.com/713847/the-best-linux-distributions-without-systemd/

Devuan gets a whole section of the article, which notes
    
>> ...
>> Devuan was forked from Debian in 2014. It’s solid and stable and has a
>> thriving community.
>> ...

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