FreeBSD was my first x-nix; I think the year was 1993! I was cutting my teeth on OS/2 and Windows NT 3.1 at the time, Gates had hired the DEC/SystemV team from Cambridge MA. (He may have known some of them at Harvard – world’s richest dropout!) … Well now I’m showing my greybeard!
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When I saw first reviews of Debian Trixie, I had to wonder about the future of MX Linux 25. I read this article that amplified that concern.
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I read the MX article
“, you can enable systemd, install some package that requires it, and then disable it again.”
I thought I read somewhere that enabling systemd in MX was a one-way trip…ie once enabled it could not be disabled
There is another path to what the article suggests
Have you seen the Antix init diversity spin?
It allows you to boot any of 5 init systems by choosing from the grub menu. There is one binary, it contains all init systems and the choice at boot triggers which one is activated. It does not include systemd.
So given that MX is derived from Antix, I would suggest it may go in that direction. Antix has no problem being a Debian derivative with non-systemd init systems, so MX can clearly manage that.
I used Freebsd in about 1993, but I used BSD before that… probably about 1982?
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That would be the year I bought my CP/M computer, an Osborne 01. Hard to imagine a high density floppy with BSD that would run on it but it is absolutely conceivable. Massive 16K of RAM!!!
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I saw one of those, not portable but luggable. 5in floppies.
Our BSD was on a mini-computer, not a PC. It had terminals on serial lines. No console just a big cabinet with disks and a reel tape.
“Massive 16K of RAM!”
Years ago I used an IBM 1401. It had 1K of ram and occupied a whole room.
And before that an IBM 1620. It had 20000 cores… each core was one bit… it did not have bytes… every bit was addressable.
Both those monsters could compile Fortran.
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Mine had the 10 MEGAbyte Trantor 10” drive. Sounded like an F16 spinning up. And I had the extra 360K floppy and the 80 char screen (4”) that didn’t come standard on the 01. The Executive had it, that came out in ‘85 but was all but forgotten in all the Kaypro hype.
I used the rig to program horse race betting with BASICA and DbaseII. Think I paid huge money for an external hercules monitor. I sorely miss the keyboard that came with it, never had one since with that much tactile keypress “feel”.
Wow that is waaay back there, in the early days of 9-track reel-to-reel and “Core Wars”. Use FORTRAN or PL Assembler with that beast? I had a boss who had an Ohio Scientific in his basement. Not sure if it occupied a whole room.
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Hi Almo,
Not wanting to start a discussion on the subject, I tend to disagree with the above.
I usually do a minimal installation of Debian Testing and then configure and add what I need, and for me it’s always a “new adventure.” 
Jorge
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HI Jorge, 
thanks for your comment.
Just out of interest:
- is it your daily driver then?
- what is your experience with respect to stabillty?
Cheers from Rosika 
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Hi Rosika,
No, as a daily use, I use LM on the PC and openSUSE Tumbleweed on the laptop, the latter since I reported here on the forum that I was having problems with Manjaro and I started testing openSUSE, but it’s still in the testing phase because I use the laptop as a mere operator.
The Debian Testing installation is exclusively for working with audio, and I try to customize it within what I know about Linux.
Jorge
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@Tech_JA :
Hi Jorge,
thanks so much for your kind feedback.
I see. Linux Mint is your daily driver. That´s certainly a good choice.
Great. Different distros for different application cases. That´s certainly a valid approach. I like that.
Perfect.
I was researching “the most stable rolling release Linux distro” lately.
If I remember correctly all sources recommended openSUSE Tumbleweed.
It was on place 1 at all times. 
Many greetings from Rosika
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I am very happy with Tumbleweed SR, a (slow) rolling release. Still keeps my network card warm, but not every day thankfully.
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The modern trend is for well managed rolling release, rather than occasional drastic updates. At first rolling releases like Arch were badly managed, but now they seem to be able to make it as stable as Debian. Solus, Void, Artix, and Tumbleweed are all good stable rolling releases.
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i used EOS (EndeavourOS) for bout a year and it’s pretty awesome with no real problems.
just mentioning another rolling release i think is worth mentioning…
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Yes I tend to forget EOS because I have not used it.
It is systemd and based on Arch. I prefer not to use systemd distros.
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