Hello everyone!

I'm a first time Devuan user although I have a not quite noobish homelab running on Ubuntu.

Since I want to try something non-systemd, I landed on this distri.

Now I'm trying to create a workstation vm for browsing, mailing, ebanking and the like. Before I get to that, though, I wanted to try and see how good a match this could be for a Ubuntu replacement on my host system.

To that effect I am a bit unsure about the kernel. uname -r tells me that the default kernel from the amd64 install iso is 3.16.43. I'm running my Ubuntu on 4.10 (in preparqation for Threadripper upgrade) and would like to go to 4.12 even.

Is the versioning here completely unrelated or is this kernel old as all hell?

Or is this some kind of LTS kernel still in development and 4.12 is only for systemd? (I am still relatively new to Linux as you can see).

Is there a good howto for me to read to get into Devuan?

Thanks for your input!

Marco