Here again is another discussion of why Trisquel is based off of
Ubuntu rather than Debian, but there is some important key information
about the systemd versus sysvinit argument in here.
Wow, this is a really interesting story here, the whole of it. What
happened after Debian switched from sysvinit to systemd? Of
course, we know some developers were outright mad. But, here’s the
key. sysvinit became broken in Debian, so developers had to make a
fork, one of which is called Devuan, that restored sysvinit back to
functioning. In the meantime, they partnered with Debian to bring
sysvinit back into working condition in Devian. But then, the
Devuan community came to an abrupt end when one of the lead developers
pulled an April Fool’s joke that the Devuan website was hacked. This
made a significant number of people upset, chaos, arguing, apologies,
and frustration ensued, that lead developer resigned, followed by
another, and another, and pretty soon, things just fell apart. With
Debian sysvinit back into operation, folks switched almost
seamlessly from Debian to Devuan, and that was the end of it.
20200525/https://trisquel.info/en/forum/why-are-we-based-ubuntu-and-not-debian
20200525/https://lwn.net/Articles/786593/
20200525/https://web.archive.org/web/20190331191212/https://www.devuan.org/pwned.html
Other than that, unfortunately, the reason why I came to the Trisquel forums, there is not much activity over there. I remember I came to ThinkPenguin first by sight of it mentioned on the Trisquel website in a sort of side banner ad. And that’s how I got my ThinkPenguin network equipment. Alas, they are no longer mentioned on the side of the Trisquel website like they use to be, and to be honest, their site and store looks quite inertial at the moment, is it slowly falling into ruin? How did I get to Trisquel? I came from the GNU website, and there is where they listed fully free GNU/Linux distributions. How did I pick Trisquel from the site? Well, I already started using Ubuntu, and it was based off of Ubuntu, so I felt it would be a safe and easy-to-use choice. How did I start using Ubuntu? I found it was the basis of my Sage virtual machines. How did I start using Sage? I saw it advertised as being used to make a particular graph image in a math Wikipedi article I was reading to learn more about advanced math. And besides, I also heard most recent passing mentions of Linux from the GNU Emacs internal essays by Richard Stallman and the Doom Legacy source code. And that is, after all, how I got into GNU Emacs, first from installing DJGPP on behalf of building Doom Legacy for MS-DOS.
And of course, I was using Doom Legacy because that was what was required by the Ultimate Chex Quest, itself having been inspired due to my family getting the Chex Quest game many years earlier in a cereal box promotion, and therefore having an interest to search the Internet for things related to it. The website went down just too soon, but eventually my brother was able to find ChexCentral.net, and from there The Ultimate Chex Quest.
And, of course, MS-DOS itself, I learned through way of it being mentioned in Windows 98, and of course those two MS-DOS computer games I’ve interacted with, Chex Quest and NASCAR Racing 2.
From Doom Legacy I also learned of SourceForge.net, since that was where the source code was hosted. From there I searched out and found Inkscape. From Inkscape I learned of Blender.
And of course, at the same time, from learning GNU Emacs, I learned about the Free Software Foundation and the Free Software Directory. SourceForge.net and the Free Software Directory combined, I had my next new move on finding tons of free, libre, open-source software, rather than stupid proprietary shareware like WinZip (mentioned by way of Doom Legacy as a way to open up the source code tarball I downloaded) and Anvil Studio (just a generic Google web search for a MIDI editor). So those got deleted from my personal software archives and I have no other record of them existing other than this story retelling.