Devuan first time on distrowatch...

un1x · 04-23-2017, 07:40 AM

fatmac · 04-23-2017, 01:25 PM

Yep, first RC of Devuan, but there are also several distros based on Devuan now that work very well - it has come of age.

hydrurga · 04-23-2017, 01:32 PM

Nope, it has been on for a fair while, at least as far back as November 2016: https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09654

arochester · 04-23-2017, 02:15 PM

Clickbait?

frankbell · 04-23-2017, 08:57 PM

I don't pay much attention to Distro Watch, but I don't think it can be accused of promulgating clickbait. (If they were interested in getting into the clickbait business, they'd do something about their interface.

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And I'm glad to see Devuan doing well. I tested in a VM a while ago and was impressed with how well it worked.

jamison20000e · 04-23-2017, 09:03 PM

Was a good one but for me in the long run it lacked a kitchen sink...

stretch/sid

un1x · 04-25-2017, 08:30 AM

^

Quote:

Was a good one but for me in the long run it lacked a kitchen sink...

jamison20000e · 04-25-2017, 08:41 AM

Is your computer old enough to make toast? Mine is fast, quiet and shopped around for—cheap\refurbished... Thanks out to Debian for Devuan and Systemd***!

Do one thing and do it well, yes multitask! Oh snap.

frankbell · 04-25-2017, 08:28 PM

One of the things that surprised me when I saw it in Devuan--and it's also in Debian 8--is that you have a choice of desktop environments and, if you wish, can install multiple DEs at time of installation. In testing for a podcast on Devuan for hackerpublicradio.org, I installed as many as three DEs at the same time.

Just for grins and giggles, I installed MATE and KDE on the Debian 8 machine just over there ------->.

I've been using KDE because I've come to really like the mature KDE 4 (that machine has v. 4.14). at least on hardware that can handle it. I fear I have been unfaithful to Fluxbox.

un1x · 05-05-2017, 10:20 AM

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/messag...9149f4.en.html

Quote:

Author: Subscribe to receive announcements about Devuan
Date: 2017-05-04 21:50 -600
To: devuan-announce
Subject: [devuan] Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC2

Dear Init Freedom Lovers,

Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!

Just two weeks after the release of Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC, we are
happy to announce Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC2. Thanks to the very good
feedback received from the community, this release candidate is one
step closer to our final Devuan stable release and our first long term
support (LTS) release as well.

The first RC was well-received in the press and in user reviews:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...\_0\_released/

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan

Please find below instructions to try out or install Devuan Jessie
1.0.0 RC2 on your computer and to upgrade from Debian 7 (Wheezy) or
Debian 8 (Jessie). If you are already using Devuan Jessie RC, a simple
`apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` will be enough to get the latest
updates.

As soon as Devuan Jessie stable is released, we will turn our
attention to Devuan Ascii, the current development branch.

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this
development effort, and for engaging in the process of making Devuan a
useful and reliable base distro, as well as a pleasant, cooperative
community

un1x · 05-25-2017, 04:20 PM

Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/messag...6cd310.en.html

jamison20000e · 05-25-2017, 04:37 PM

Run the rest but try the best:

Code:

systemd --version
systemd 232
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...3/#post5713258
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5708518
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/u...y-live-builds/

ibmercurial · 06-13-2017, 08:32 PM

We needed a lightweight,full, Linux Distro to run on an old Dell 1521 Inspiron laptop. Devuan fits perfectly. B43 Broadcom wireless works out of the box, and the connection is pretty stable. It ships with xfce4 and I installed mate from the repos. Audacity and Avidemux were a breeze to install. I wish the developers a bright future with this distro

arochester · 06-14-2017, 04:15 AM

@ibmercurial

I find your post a bit strange.

Devuan is put forward as Debian with sysvinit as default - different from Debian in only ONE respect - so you would have got exactly the same results by using Debian.

You have installed Devuan Jessie which is based on Debian Jessie (Debian 8) and is already 2 years old. Debian Stretch (which will become Debian 9) is on the edge of becoming Stable.

You could have installed MANY other lightweight distros with the same outcomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightw...x_distribution

If your main distribution is Slackware would that not have worked?

(...Who's "We"?..)

cynwulf · 06-16-2017, 09:23 AM

I've stated my opinion on Devuan before: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...8/#post5643902

While many, including myself, do regard it as a dubious project,verging on "snake oil", the same could be said for many software projects...

I don't think challenging every user or potential user will change anything. Jeremy, as I understand it, is also quite pro freedom of speech, so I can't see Devuan threads getting locked almost "by default" at this forum, as I've been led to believe they have been on some others.

The fact they could have installed xyz distro to achieve the same outcome means little as it's all down to choice. You could apply that to almost any Linux distribution - you use it and like it because the implementation suits your tastes or needs.

And challenging those who could not get systemd working correctly/reliably on their system with the argument that it's supposedly working for you and everyone else is a fallacy.

The age of the software is also irrelevant - it doesn't seem to stop people using CentOS or indeed sticking with an oldstable Debian release. Debian itself follows a stable release model where it's roughly 2 years per release, involving a development freeze and a prerelease bug squashing process of backporting upstream patches to old versions. Debian is "out of fate" on release day. This is nothing new and it's what spurred the creation of derivatives such as Ubuntu.