Please select one of the following ...

No reply to this thread means:
(a)  Oops, I didn't see this post!  Let me read it now.
(b)  I'm ignoring this because it has already been discussed in another thread.
(c)  I'm ignoring this because init systems have already been thrashed to death.
(d)  This is a great idea but I forgot about it/was too busy; I am going to implement it immediately!
(e)  This is a good idea but I forgot about it/was too busy; I am going to implement it with some mods.
(f)  None of the above.
(g)  I hate multiple choice questions.

It seems to me that ...

1/  The s6 documentation has been updated, and is clearer than it was.  (Perhaps it hasn't changed but I understand more about how it works?)

2/  s6-linux-init, s6-svscan and s6-supervise are good to go.

3/  The new s6-rc is still WIP but the current ("old") one is good to go.

4/  There needs to be a distro-specific effort to write s6 service file(s) for each daemon - e.g., to translate the SysVinit ones into s6-compatible ones.

5/  However, work is also underway on a "turnkey" s6 installation process - "s6-frontend" - which will provide a default set of s6 service files.  However that is still a while away.

(I wonder how easy it would be to transplant Artix s6 service files into Devuan?)

I confirm that, after installing the chromium packages per c0rnelius above, chromium now works.  (The Chrome "Citrix Workspace" extension also works in chromium.)  Thank you for your help.

Sorry, I got that last bit back to front; my setting is:

dtoverlay=gpio-fan,gpiopin=14,temp=60000

The fan starts when the temp is 60 degC or above.
The fan cuts out when the temp drops to/below 60 - 10 degC.

Thank you dave.

FYI, I tried:
  devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_arm64_rpi4.img.zip
and then:
  rpi-4-devuan-chimaera-5.10.95-v8-ext4-2022-03-27.zip

Standard installation + xfce4 + xfce4-goodies + chromium (+ others)

So far they both work well ...  except for Chromium:
chromium/stable,stable-security,now 99.0.4844.74-1~deb11u1 arm64  (chimaera-5.10.95)

Chromium doesn't even get to the GUI:
...
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
[5901:5901:0329/135843.805763:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(972)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=6
...

But it looks to be somewhat similar to a recent upstream Debian bug with Chromium:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1004368

So I won't report it as a Devuan bug.

Anyone concur?  (Or found a workaround?)
[Edit: Hmmm ... probably not related to the Debian bug.]

Agree.  Thank you very much, all you Devuan people, for all your work on getting this done.

[Edit: Corrected the quote formatting]

@H_O_A_S/@zapper:  Thanks for the tip about doas.

I note it can be installed from the repository (http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64 Packages).

Tried it, but the one thing I need is its "persist" functionality, which doesn't work for me; here's my /etc/doas.conf contents:

doas runs fine but *always* asks me for the password.

I understand persist doesn't work because the package must have been compiled without first enabling persist.  I assume it comes directly from Debian ... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=983505

I'm hoping @andyprough can give use his thoughts on s6 v runit speed.

My 2 cents:  Devuan + runit is very fast to boot up on an Xfce desktop installation.  Artix + s6 was faster on the same PC.  I would guess (relying on my memory of when I had Artix installed, 1.5 years ago) that Artix + s6 felt like an order of magnitude faster, but both are so quick that we're only really talking about a difference of  a few seconds.  Might be a different story, in favour of s6, for a server installation?

Also, I've just asked Distrowatch to update their "Init Software" details for Devuan.  Please check ... in case I haven't got that quite right.

Yes, thank you very much to all you hard workers at Devuan.  An amazing, functional and free operating system!

I had to boot my USB installer in legacy (BIOS) mode rather than UEFI, on my particular PC. If I installed through UEFI, the post-installation boot would end up at the GRUB2 command line.

I installed using ethernet, with the runit init software, and configured wifi after the first reboot.  To avoid subsequent slow booting ("ifup: waiting for lock on /run/network/interfaces/ifstate.eth0"), I had to comment out the following lines in /etc/network/interfaces:
    # The primary network interface
    #allow-hotplug eth0
    #iface eth0 inet dhcp
    # This is an autoconfigured IPv6 interface
    #iface eth0 inet6 auto