On 1/8/19 1:34 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Miles Fidelman - 08.01.19, 18:16:I would have been very surprised if you had told me 6 months ago that I would be writing this, but: Please consider Devuan as an alternative. You have probably seen awful mails from one or two very toxic trolls pushing Devuan, but the actual Devuan developers I have dealt with have been lovely, and on a technical level they seem to be doing good work.Thanks! It's actually high on my list. I've been waiting for it to mature just a bit, and it seems to have. Any observations on how it stacks up for a production server? Anything else that strikes you as a particularly strong Debian alternative for servers? (My short list, right now is Gentoo, Funtoo, Devuan, and FreeBSD. I'd been hoping that one of the OpenSolaris derivatives would look solid, but it's never really happened. Hypervisors & failover, and replicated storage are also high on my list).I suggest you take Devuan related questions to the devuan mailing list dng¹.
Topic change is definitely appropriate, my apologies. Comparisons of distributions, IMHO is within bounds.
One may argue whether Debian's systemd decision process was similar to what happened now, but discussing distributions and other operating systems without systemd is clearly off topic on this thread and also off- topic on the mailing list. It does not add any value to this discussion and clutters the thread with unrelated stuff. That said, two of my server VMs run Devuan since a few months and I am happy so far. [1] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng Thanks,
Thank you. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra