On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:40:56 Rick Moen said,

Quoting Mark Trickett (marktrickett@gmail.com):

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I noted that it is possible to put openrc on Debian 8. I shall need to do a bit of research. Some notes from you and/or Rick Moen would be very appreciated.

apt-get install openrc

Reboot.

apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd

Note that said command will remove..............

Lots of good stuff omitted Much thanks for this its most apreciated, it actually closely matchs another doc I found on the net about replacing systemd in debian but in Ricks version has vastly more info on other packages involved. Just a minor point, if required this writer would have no hesitation in looking at recompiling bsdutils and util-linux if it was required. I personally think Debian is insane in using systemd its entirely anti unix. Using Linux for 22 years (how time flies), Lindsay