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re all,

Here is a pre-alpha sneak preview of Devuan at the current state of
affairs. It is my valentine to Franco: despite we probably never met in
person, I love him. He is really dedicated to this project and putting
hard work in it. I also fell in love with another VUA, whose name I
won't tell, but he is the one hosting the gitlab, running very well.

http://mirror.debianfork.org/d...

http://mirror.debianfork.org/d...

http://mirror.debianfork.org/d...

do not use this in production, this is an internal preview (not even an
alpha) for the Devuan enthusiastic community and for those wondering if
we'll really make it: yes we will.

Journalists and DWN editors reading: please do not link this. We will
have another more public release soon :^) Let it be a private valentine

Also please note that this is not yet rebranded, so it says Debian
almost everywhere. Didn't find the time for that yet.

default user is 'devuan'
password is always 'devuan', also for root

sources are those of Debian 8 RC1 jessie
plus the mods here: https://git.devuan.org/groups/...
and packed with the SDK https://git.devuan.org/devuan/...

happy hacking

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Pretty fucking boss.

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/...

re all,

Here is a pre-alpha sneak preview of Devuan at the current state of
affairs. It is my valentine to Franco: despite we probably never met in
person, I love him. He is really dedicated to this project and putting
hard work in it. I also fell in love with another VUA, whose name I
won't tell, but he is the one hosting the gitlab, running very well.

http://mirror.debianfork.org/d...

http://mirror.debianfork.org/d...

http://mirror.debianfork.org/d...

do not use this in production, this is an internal preview (not even an
alpha) for the Devuan enthusiastic community and for those wondering if
we'll really make it: yes we will.

Journalists and DWN editors reading: please do not link this. We will
have another more public release soon :^) Let it be a private valentine

Also please note that this is not yet rebranded, so it says Debian
almost everywhere. Didn't find the time for that yet.

default user is 'devuan'
password is always 'devuan', also for root

sources are those of Debian 8 RC1 jessie
plus the mods here: https://git.devuan.org/groups/...
and packed with the SDK https://git.devuan.org/devuan/...

happy hacking

--
Jaromil, Dyne.org Free Software Foundry (est. 2000)
We are free to share code and we code to share freedom
Web: https://j.dyne.org/ Contact: https://j.dyne.org/c.vcf
GPG: 6113 D89C A825 C5CE DD02 C872 73B3 5DA5 4ACB 7D10
Confidential communications: https://keybase.io/jaromil

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Pretty fucking boss.

You mean like Devuan?
https://devuan.org/

I'm currently trying to decide between that, Debian/kFreeBSD, and stock Debian with systemd purged and locked/held (so that I can't accidentally install something that requires it).

Why Debian/kFreeBSD? Because systemd is not portable and won't run on the FreeBSD kernel, so Debian/kFreeBSD literally cannot make the switch. I do not care very much about the kernel or about Linux-specific features, so I don't really see much of a downside to it.

(For me one of the core tenets of the Unix philosophy has always been portability. I do not want everyone running on the same kernel, or the same CPU architecture, or the same byte order, or the same word size, or anything. Code should be portable across all of that. Write pure ANSI C if you can, and add POSIX if you must, and if that won't do the trick, then compromise but feel ashamed of it.)

At the moment I'm leaning towards "stock Debian with sysvinit, and further with systemd explicitly blacklisted". Even with all the bullcrap that's been going on, it'll be a while before Debian truly requires systemd for much, and I can hope that they'll just change course before then. I can always switch to one of the other approaches later.

http://devuan.org/

also

http://without-systemd.org/wik...

Why don't you just follow the links in the post?

"Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like "DevOne" in English." http://devuan.org/

And to me it sounds great.