On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:02:35 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Patrick Bartek via Dng
> wrote: ...
> ...
> >
> > Jessie was the first Debian version to use systemd by default as
> > the init. Perhaps, something was installed as a systemd dependency
> > that wouldn't have been installed with the new Beowulf computer
> > under sysvinit that carried forward with a dist-upgrade of Jessie to
> > Beowulf. Or you installed something on the old system that wasn't
> > installed on the new one, and that is doing the automounting.
>
> Historical note.
>
> And the first Devuan release was called Jessie because it was almost
> identical to the Debian release with the same name -- it differed
> primarily in that it did not use systemd as an init. This was the
> last Debian relese that had no problems running without systemd.

I run Debian Stretch with sysvinit without problems even though some
systemd libraries and udev-systemd remained after converting to
sysvinit. Even updates-upgrades don't result in systemd-init being
reinstalled like with Buster.

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