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= Devuan =
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Introduction
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Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution that uses sysvinit,
runit or OpenRC instead of systemd. Devuan aims to avoid "lock-in" by
projects like systemd and aims to maintain compatibility with other
init systems to avoid detaching Linux from other Unix systems.
History
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With the release of Debian 8, some developers and users felt alienated
due to the project's adoption of systemd and subsequent removal of
support for other existing init systems. This decision prompted some
Debian community members to start a fork of Debian without systemd.
Instead of continuing the Debian practice of using Toy Story character
names as release codenames, Devuan aliases its releases using planet
names. The first stable release shared the Debian 8 codename 'Jessie'.
However, the Devuan release was named for minor planet 10464.
The first stable release of Devuan was published on May 25, 2017.
Devuan 2.0.0 'ASCII' was released on June 9, 2018, and 2.1 'ASCII' was
released on November 21, 2019. ASCII provides a choice of five
different desktop environments at install time (XFCE, Cinnamon, KDE,
LXQt, MATE), while many other window managers are available from the
repositories. It also provides installation options for choosing
between sysvinit and OpenRC for init, and between GRUB and LILO for
the boot loader. Devuan maintains a modified version of the Debian
expert text installer, which has the ability to install only free
software if the user chooses, while the live desktop image also uses a
custom graphical installer from Refracta, a derivative of Devuan.
Devuan 3.0 Beowulf was released on June 3, 2020, based on Debian 10.4.
Ppc64el has been added to the list of supported architectures. Runit
is now available as an alternative init. Eudev and elogind are now
used to replace some Systemd functionality.
Devuan 4.0 Chimaera was released on October 14, 2021. It is based on
Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10.
Devuan 5.0 Daedalus was released on August 15, 2023. It is based on
Debian Bookworm (12.1) with Linux kernel 6.1.
The current testing suite with code name Excalibur is planned for
2025+. It is based on Debian Trixie (13) with Linux kernel 6.10.
Packages
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Devuan has its own package repository which mirrors upstream Debian,
with local modifications made only when needed to allow for init
systems other than systemd. Devuan does not provide systemd in its
repositories but still retains libsystemd0 until it has removed all
dependencies.
Amprolla is the program used to merge Debian packages with Devuan
packages. It downloads packages from Debian and merges changes to
packages that Devuan overrides. According to Repology the number of
packages in Devuan 4.0 is less but close to Debian Stable (13); the
Devuan unstable is almost identical to Debian unstable in terms of the
number of packages.
Derivatives
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In August 2022, Peppermint OS announced the release of Devuan-based
ISO's, alongside their Debian-based ISO's.
Exe GNU/Linux is a Devuan derivative (since 2017) featuring the
Trinity Desktop Environment and another LXDE version.
Star is another Devuan-based Linux distribution featuring several
lightweight window managers, such as Openbox, Fluxbox, JWM, and i3.
Version history
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!Version !Codename !Codebase !Release date !End of support
| |Jessie |Debian 8 "Jessie" |May 25, 2017 |June 30, 2020
| |ASCII |Debian 9 "Stretch" |June 9, 2018 |July 1, 2022
| |Beowulf |Debian 10 "Buster" |June 3, 2020 |June 30, 2024
| |Chimaera |Debian 11 "Bullseye" |October 14, 2021 |N/A
| |Daedalus |Debian 12 "Bookworm" |August 14, 2023 |N/A
| |Excalibur |Debian 13 "Trixie" |N/A |N/A
| |Freia |Debian 14 "Forky" |N/A |N/A
|'unstable' |Ceres |Debian "Sid" colspan="2" |Rolling release
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External links
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*[https://devuan.org/ Devuan home page]
*[https://git.devuan.org Source code repository]
*[https://files.devuan.org/ Release archive]
License
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