Hello:

Sorry for the delay ...
[reasons]

On 24 Aug 2025 at 19:34, Steve Litt wrote:

> >... what convenience/s | advantage/s does [runit] offer ...

> ... sysvinit is *much* better than systemd ...

There's a former Debian developer/maintainer now working for
Microsoft who not only thinks *otherwise* but also managed to
convince the Debian crowd (and others) of that. 8^D

Long ago, I left the Linux distribution I was using at the time
(Ubuntu?, Mint?) when it adopted systemd as the default init.

Reading up on what was going on and after many years' of making a
living doing first tier support on MSOSs operating systems (W95 to
XP) practically made the decision for me to look for a systemd-less
distribution.

Main reason?
What I understood were solid arguments against it and the fact that
(to me) systemd seemed like the MS registry, just with another name.

After trying a couple of other systemd-less distributions, I finally
settled on Devuan Linux, have been here since ca. 2017 and expect
that to be so for the foreseeable future.

That said, my point is:

The init software Devuan uses (in this case, sysvinit) has always
been transparent to me, whatever isues my box may have had at one
time or another were fixed with community help and looking carefully
at the logs the system provided.

The workings of sysvinit still remain as transparent to me as they
have always been, which is why I asked my original question.

If tomorow Devuan decided it would make the switch to eg: runit it
most probably remain equally transparent.

I expect tnat, in all probablilty, the same thing is true for the
vast majority of Linux Devuan users.

Thank you very much for taking the time to write up such a
comprehensive post, it has proven quite enlightening.

Best,

A.