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macondo

Member

From: Central America

Registered: 2017-06-11

Posts: 49  

Runit

I got antix 19.2 with runit in one of my other partitions, runs great.

In my opinion, is superior and faster than the other init systems.

The Devuan devs should incorporate it soon.

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 1,693  

Re: Runit

Already done. It will be an installation choice in the beowulf point-release. Until then, you have to add it manually after the system is installed.

brocashelm

Member

Registered: 2020-06-29

Posts: 60  

Re: Runit

Runit is excellent and can already be used with Devuan since Beowulf.

Here's a quick guide:

This guide shows how to use runit-init as PID1 in Devuan, it is primarily aimed at Jesse from Distrowatch

First, instal the runit-init package:

# apt install runit-init

APT will ask for a specific confirmation for the operation because replacing the init system is far from trivial, type in the required authorisation to install the package.

Next, reboot into runit-init. Check it has worked with

cat /proc/1/comm

The output should be runit.

That's it!

EDIT: if a display manager is not required then add the user to the input group to allow access to the keyboard &c:

# gpasswd -a $USER input