Please read the Beowulf Release Notes.

That's quite a rant but has no useful description of what you did to get to beowulf.   Did you read the Release Notes and follow the installation documentation?

Let's see a copy of your sources.list

Just for the record.  I have no mobile devices  and all my devices are wired.  I have not yet found a need for wifi which simplifies my life greatly (after it's hooked up).

@bimon . . . Thank you

Why are systemd files present in Devuan?

That was before elongind replaced libsystemd.  There shouldn't be any libsystemd0 in beowulf.

@pcalvert . . . Thank you for that rational and lucid explanation.  Looks like you have contributed an import tool for Debianistas  to regain their init freedom.  Well done!!

Anything in cli is a lot of work for me.  I saw his post and glazed over.  I'm really not that much of a techie.  My "talents" lie elsewhere.  That's why I was asking for some comparative Cliff Notes.

I wouldn't have posted this if I didn't have great respect for pcalvert.  It's just that comparative discussion would be useful to me (so I don't have to figure it out myself . . . which is, in reality, a non-starter . . . LOL!).

That information is all over devuan channels and documentation for those who care to rtfm.

Try https://BETA.devuan.org/os/packages for beowulf

OMG someone pushed it to master!  And there are things that still need to be done there!!

@larsH . . . Did you choose the "expert" install option?  That's where most of the options are available.

This is a test