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Devuan Progress Report Published
zdzichu writes: The group of anonymous Italians behind the recent Debian fork have published their first progress report. It covers a wide range of topics: the 4.5k€ of donations received so far, moving distro infrastructure from GitHub to GitLab, progress on LoginKit (which replaces systemd's logind), fraud accusations, logo discussions, and few more important points.
It covers a wide range of topics: the 4.5k€ of donations received so far, moving distro infrastructure from GitHub to GitLab, progress on LoginKit (which replaces systemd's logind), fraud accusations, logo discussions, and few more important points.
Was someone trying to sneak that one through in the middle of a dull-news sandwich?
The problem is that all money donated to Devuan doesn't go directly into Devuan, but into a rather dubious organization, with no public oversight and no accountability.
Here is a link to the org and their pre-Devuan Linux distro:
http://www.dynebolic.org/
Take a look around, and notice how a "donate" button never is far way from any project or web page.
The foundation has a chairman called Denis Roio, AKA "Jaromil", and according to themselves, the foundation "helps them pay taxes", in other words, they pay themselves from the org whatever they like.
There is a certain smell of "scam" around the Devuan project, not so much its contributors as a whole, but about the small group of shady figures centered around the "dyne org".