Thanks to Brocashelm and Valera for those replies.  I am going to try them both as I move forward with this.

I suppose I probably should have asked another obvious question:  Can I take my existing SysVinit MXlinux install and turn it into a Devuan-based MX system?

As I type this I'm realizing surely this has been asked before but rather than delete the question maybe it's not too inappropriate for this specific thread.

EDIT:  So I do see this and presume this is the way to do that, though if anyone knows of something more MX-Specific I'd appreciate it.  I didn't see a similar thread over at the MX forum.  https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … libur.html