u/Apprehensive_Milk520

Wow - I am just thrilled to death. Have 17 a year old Dell Latitude 13 laptop - loved this thing to death, so small and extremely slim, it was my go to laptop any time I had go on the road.

Systemd just sucked the life out of it across the years, even Arch with custom install and minimal everything. I haven't booted it up in 10 years.

Decided, why not try Void on it?

Holy heck! Brought it back to life!

Thank you Void team - I am happy beyond words. I wrote most of my books on that little laptop. It's so nice to have my old friend back and working better than I could have ever hoped... :)

Devuan with sysvinit makes for a great bare metal server. Light, fast and sane, like a server needs to be. Lobotomized a server this past week and loaded Devuan with sysvinit and have been wildly pleased with the results.

Moved my KVMs to it - have been thinking about replacing Debian based KVM servers with Devuan. One Debian KVM is a bit of a stickler, though, is the one I use for my own hosting - I use a control panel to manage it all (because in some things I am lazy) and I seem to not be finding any CPs which support sysvinit, let alone Deuvan. Didn't really expect to find many, but seems like a total absence thereof - or I just suck at searching (probably the latter).

The authors of the CP I use on Debian have no intentions of supporting other inits unless those become forces of nature, like systemd.

It won't kill me to stay with Debian for one virtual server so I can have a hosting control panel (because lazy is as lazy does), but still... would be nice to find one, at least, that will work without systemd.

Any one have any suggestions? Think I may have tunnel vision at this one...