So, I rescued a 12-year-old Macbook Pro, given up by its owner because Apple had orphaned it from security updates, and also it was suffering from Apple High-Qwality Spicy Pillow Syndrome.
I replaced the battery and installed Linux on it.
And I gotta say, this was the most satisfying thing I've done with a keyboard in years:
# apt-get purge systemd libnss-systemd
#Devuan Excalibur installed/upgraded from Debian Trixie like a champ. Now I don't have to deal with extraneous horseshit when Lennart adds systemd-mountd, systemd-sshd, systemd-bourne-shell, systemd-emacs, etc, etc...
Thanks to nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpvx2r5cwrdvr78tzsunrrqcewldgt5r5zy8j0fx6vulvwgtw65eszu2lyr (nprofile…2lyr) for the post that finally convinced me to give Devuan a go. I'd been thinking about it for years, but didn't feel like setting aside a bunch of debugging time which I assumed would be needed.
Now to figure out how to switch to s6 from runit. ( nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0jkeeqdl7q22gw8ax79e4r84e6smhz2wk3ew80ph06nljukle83ql7euty (nprofile…euty) )
#Debian #systemd #UnixPhilosophy #runit #s6 #init #Unix #Linux
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