Devuan

Devuan
Developer The "Veteran Unix Admins" (VUA) collective; e.g. Franco Lanza, Denis Roio, Roger Leigh
OS family Unix-like
Source model Open source
Kernel type Monolithic: Linux
Userland GNU
Official website devuan.org

Devuan is a fork[1][2] of the Debian Linux distribution that started in November 2014. Its stated first goal is to provide a distribution without the systemd init daemon installed by default.[3] The Debian 8 Jessie release has caused polarization amongst Debian developers and users, due to the project's adoption of systemd as the default init replacement.[4][5][6]

Devuan has its own package repository which mirrors upstream Debian development,[7] with local modifications made only when needed to remove systemd dependencies or otherwise preserve "init freedom." Modified packages include policykit and udisks. Devuan is supposed to work very similar to the corresponding Debian release. Devuan does provide systemd, but it is not the default init system.

Instead of continuing the Debian practice of using the names of characters from the Toy Story films as release codenames,[8] Devuan aliases its releases using planet names. The upcoming stable release will share the Debian 8 codename Jessie. However, the Devuan release is named for minor planet 10464. The permanent alias for the Devuan unstable branch is Ceres, named for the dwarf planet.[9]

Devuan Alpha 4 builds for i386 and amd64 were released to the public on February 1, 2016.[9][10]

Devuan Jessie BETA was released to the public on April 29, 2016.[9][11]

References

  1. ↑ Hoffman, Chris. "Meet Devuan, the Debian fork born from a bitter systemd revolt". PCWorld. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Larabel, Michael. "Devuan: Debian Without Systemd". Phoronix. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Sharwood, Simon. "systemd row ends with Debian getting forked". The Register. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Stahie, Silviu (28 November 2014). "Fork Debian Project Announces the Systemd-less OS Devuan". Softpedia. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Lanza, Franco (30 November 2014). "Re: [Dng] I want systemd". Dng -- The first mailinglist after debianfork.org. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Wise, Paul (25 April 2015). "Debian 8 "Jessie" released". debian-announce. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Devuan build system overview". Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  8. ↑ Debian FAQ Authors (1 May 2015). "What are all those names like etch, lenny, etc.?". The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 "Devuan GNU/Linux - Debian without systemd.". 4 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  10. ↑ "Devuan download zone". files.devuan.org. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "Devuan download zone". files.devuan.org. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.

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