A newbie (3 years user) here

So I searched the Devuan's package manager (apt) to see if Freenginx exists and I found out that the answer is no. However, Nginx exists, but I don't really want to use Nginx. On the other hand, Apache2 isn't really powerful like Nginx and many people say that it's better to make a reverse-proxy where Nginx points to Apache2 and then it's less wasteful.

I searched the extrepo as well and Freenginx is not there too.

It feels like the only way for me to run freenginx would be to build it myself. However I have zero knowledge in building packages nor installing anything that is not provided by apt (i'm way too cautious it's nearly boring), I trust apt as if apt was god. I fear of breaking things in my system.

Would you trust Freenginx and build it on your own? Perhaps the reason that I don't find it in apt and extrepo is because the community don't trust it?

Worth to mention that I didn't found it in Alpine Linux as well, I thought of running it within a container, but it's not there too.

Hi,

There's a problem I'd like to inform you about.
Maybe it's something in my configuration? Perhaps it's global?

Using sddm (LXQt), Services managed by OpenRC

Whenever you restart sddm, Regular users are being added to the root group.

Before, on any tty/psudeo-terminal:

$ groups
user cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev bluetooth lpadmin scanner incus-admin

After:

On regular tty:

$ sudo rc-service sddm restart

On GUI psuedo-terminal (QTerminal):

$ groups
user root cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev users netdev bluetooth lpadmin scanner incus-admin
$ id
uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),0(root),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),100(users),105(netdev),109(bluetooth),111(lpadmin),114(scanner),995(incus-admin)

Worth to mention that:
The user is part of the root group only on GUI terminal (within LXQt) and not on regular ttys (if you'll run the groups command on a regular tty, this won't happen)

How can I fix it?

Update - I found out that it is a well known bug since 2018(!) how sad

I tried to install Excalibur on a Virtual Machine (the host is Debian Trixie, using Libvirt). The regular installation faced lots of problems, so instead I chose to install Daedalus and then upgrade to Excalibur.

Daedalus had no problems at all. All the problems are happening with Excalibur

Init: OpenRC

The steps I took:

1.

~# apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y usrmerge
~# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan6.sources && cat << heredoc > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan6.sources
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://il.deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: excalibur excalibur-updates
Components: main contrib non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://il.deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: excalibur-security
Components: main contrib non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
heredoc

2. Then I performed the rest of the guide:

~# apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade

After a reboot (though I didn't had to but still I wanted to see that everything works as expected) I get the following errors:

Error: udev is the name of a real and virtual service. [ ok ]
...
Cannot persist initramfs fsck.log ... Failed!
Checking file systems...Cannot persist the following output on disc ... Failed!

What does this mean?

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to get answers to my questions. Also, please excuse my awful English in advance, as English isn't my native language.
I don't want to waste your time more than I already did, I'll just ask my questions straight (sorry if my questions are idiotic, I am a n00b):

1. When you define Devuan as "Debian without systemd", do you mean that is 1:1 Debian without systemd and any software that require systemd and can not operate without it? What about libvirt and incus - can I use them with Devuan? What can't I use?

2. Debian allows its users to have a local mirror. If I want to have a local Devuan mirror, is it possible too? is it the same procedure?

3. And maybe my most interesting question: Why can't Debian just give up on Systemd? If too many people loath it (and you can understand that I'm one of them - otherwise I wouldn't be here), why can't we choose our own alternative for systemd, and allow those who want to choose systemd without coercing on those who doesn't? personally, I prefer OpenRC but if you can give me the ability to choose which I prefer (SysVInit, OpenRC and runit if I am not wrong), why does Debian force me to have systemd?

Right now, I am using Debian on my main PCs, and having Devuan in a VM, but I want (hopefully in the nearest future) to move from Debian to Devuan, as my main OS. I'm not there yet but I make my first steps, one step at a time. Also, I found out that my Devuan VMs are booting faster than the Debian VMs, so I tend to precede that switch.

Thank you for your time and answers