Welcome to the club, and I hope you enjoy Devuan.

Similar to you, I have two devices that are installed Devuan. I dont have any option again except when I want to have fun and try musl distro.

I have a FreeBSD server for web and mail servers. I'm happy with that.


On September 22, 2024 5:03:48 PM GMT+07:00, nick@??? wrote:
>Just dropping a line to say that as of today, I've officially switched from Linux Mint to Devuan and I am loving it ;) I have switched over my development PC and will switch over my laptop shortly. My mailserver and webserver (currently both on Ubuntu) will also be changed soon, when I have time to dig into it. I have been experiencing (i) persistent problems with the webserver where systemd won't let the server process run, seems to think it is respawning too fast or something, and (ii) a one-off problem with the mailserver where all networking failed and investigation eventually revealed that systemd-resolved was the cause, however the problem went away after I enabled diagnostics and restarted systemd-resolved... didn't give a confident feeling for the future!
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>Anyway, on the development PC, I am not sure if it's my imagination but it just seems so much lighter and faster than what I was running before. It might be because I was on Debian via Ubuntu via Mint, whereas now I'm on Debian via Devuan, and there could be less cruft added. And in particular the bootup seems a lot quicker, which is surprising really since one of the claims about systemd is that its dependency based startup should be quicker. Hmm. Anyway I have always found systemd to be quite oppressive, since I haven't got time to waste on sysadmin tasks beyond quickly searching and maybe downloading a script or whatever. To create systemd units is quite a learning curve, and although I've done that in the past I've never really been sure I did it right. And I could not be bothered learning the syntax for things line systemctl, journalctl and whatnot -- I'd rather use simpler commands to view logs and such.
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>So, I couldn't be happier, and I want to say a massive thankyou to the community. I wish we could somehow spread the message and get everyone onto Devuan.
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>kind regards,
>Nick
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