On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 22:24:46 +0100 (CET) Aquarius <aquar...@tutanota.de> wrote:
> Maybe Devuan would meet your requirements of using the init system > you would like to use. It is not on Stretch yet but on Jessie. I'm aware of Devuan and tested it in VirtualBox. At the time ( a year ago), it was still pretty rough around the edges. Unfortunately, it's still in Beta. I checked just a couple days ago. I also looked at AntiX and mx-16. They are systemd free, too, but as with Devuan both are based on Jessie.. I doubt if they'll have Stretch-based releases ready within my timeframe. Plus, I can't do a custom install with the latter two (start with a terminal-only system), or I haven't found a way so far. That's why I'm seriously considering Stretch itself along with all the trouble of ridding it of systemd (or as much of it as I can). Thanks, anyway, for the recommendation. B