On Thursday 10 April 2025 09:52:22 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > I am creating a build script environment for Slackware. Something in the > tradition of stock and SBo build scripts for those who know what that > means. > > Debian seems overwhelmingly supported in TDE. To help me learn I want to > create a Debian VM where I can download and study package sources and > build scripts. > > One caveat is the Debian distro needs to NOT support systemd because > Slackware does not. I need something reasonably close to how Slackware > functions. > > I tried q4os but I did not like and their custom control center thingie > frustrated me and gets in my way. And I want something generic with no > systemd. > > Something straightforward. Install the ISO, configure apt sources, > install TDE. > > Please recommend. I am guessing a plain Devuan ISO might suffice? > > Thank you. You want Devuan, the non-systemd fork of Debian. I myself, Nik, and a few others on the list, are Devuan users. There are, by the way, many different flavors of Devuan: for example, Heads, which is the non-systemd version of Tails; or Exegnulinux, which I think Nik uses, and a few other distros listed on their site. I use plain old vanilla Devuan, which, in my view, is more true to the original Debian than Debian itself. But then, we are each entitled to our own poison. Bill P.S. some links to start devuan releases - downloads https://beta.devuan.org/os/devuan-distros https://beta.devuan.org/get-devuan https://www.devuan.org/os/releases https://beta.devuan.org/os/releases https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/ https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/devuan_daedalus/installer-iso/ https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/devuan_daedalus/desktop-live/ https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/devuan_daedalus/minimal-live/
